Word: unionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only heaven and the London dockers knew what old Trade Unionist Ernie Bevin would say when he got back from Moscow and heard about the bejeweled blacklegs in Bombay...
...What Unionist Sullivan hoped, he said, was that "the honest, decent men who compose the overwhelming majority of the labor movement in Canada [will be aroused] to the danger . . . before it is too late." He is making his position public, he said, because "an unavoidable accident might occur to myself." At week's end, having had his say, he was in hiding...
...Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta...
...could not utterly desert and become a Unionist; he could not remain with Davis. ... He was neither here nor there, a lonely and bewildered figure, wandering through the twilight of the Confederacy with a copy of its Constitution in his hands...
...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...