Word: unionistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though big, bluff Robert Lacoste rates as French proconsul in Algeria, his background as Socialist, trade unionist and World War II Resistance fighter gives him a viewpoint somewhat different from that of the colons he zealously protects. Last week he gave a group of intimates a new reason for continuing the war that cannot be won: If France surrenders, he said, it will mean the return to continental France of more than a million angry displaced Europeans, plus an army largely sympathetic to them. The outcome, hinted Lacoste, would be a rightist revolution a la Franco...
...more obdurate press than in Scranton (pop. 127,600). Their most dogged foe over the years has been sensitive, white-haired Thomas F. Murphy, editorial-page editor of the Democratic evening Times (circ. 57,429). A Timesman for 60 of his 77 years, fighting Tom Murphy is a staunch unionist; in 1904 he helped found the Newswriters Union, a forerunner of the American Newspaper Guild. But in recent years, as labor goons and commissars pushed their thumbs deeper into Scranton's economic windpipe, old Tom hammered tirelessly at union despotism...
...looking for trouble. I don't pretend to be smart or tough, and I am only going to tell you one thing-that I am a nervous type, and don't come here and start trouble for me, because somebody is going to get hurt." Said the unionist: "Trouble? You don't know the first damn thing about trouble. Why, we'll give you so much trouble here that you'll get ulcers." Answered Pozusek: "Ulcers? That don't worry me, because I am getting the damn things for the last 15 years...
...intemperate demands of Arab nationalists and the soberer counsel of those who recognize that France still has a considerable hold on Morocco's purse strings. The dominant Moroccan political force, stoutly behind Mohammed V, is still the Istiqlal, a party whose leadership is largely intellectual, membership mostly trade unionist. But one of Mohammed's problems is how to balance its laicist modernists against the conservative religionists of the medinas and the rural areas. Chief of the Istiqlal, and probably the most popular man in Morocco after the Sultan himself, is Allal el Fassi, a fire-breathing orator...
...Trade Unionist Grant...