Word: unionistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foregone conclusion, as the voters of Northern Ireland went to the polls last week for the first time in four years, that the Protestant, pro-British Unionist Party would win-just as it has in every general election since the North Irish government was established in 1920. But that did not prevent the Irish from going into a round of heady politicking. Although 21 of the seats were uncontested, the Unionists had to contest their claim to the other 31 seats against no less than nine opposition parties. In some constituencies, just to add spice to the occasion, Unionists were...
...know as well as I do," Mashburn bluntly replied. The answer was indeed obvious-the delegates were sore and suspicious over the resignation of their fellow unionist, Pipefitter Martin Durkin, as Secretary of Labor. They preferred to believe that Durkin was speaking the truth when he said that the President had gone back on an explicit face-to-face promise to recommend 19 changes in the Taft-Hartley law. Addressing the convention, the ex-Secretary had spoken softly, even admiringly, of Eisenhower, but he had plainly implied that he considered Ike's denial of his accusation...
...candor and loyalty, high scores for arrogance and dissimulation. Pratt's Stanton is not apt to change the historians' minds overnight, but he has written a spirited, readable defense of his man that should leave the pros and the antis agreeing on at least one thing: stout Unionist Stanton was a whale of a Secretary of War, who probably did as much as any one man to bring about Union victory...
Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky (rhymes with Trotsky), a gaunt old man of 69 with stainless-steel teeth, delivered the longest funeral oration (27 minutes). An Old Bolshevik and longtime trades unionist, Zapotocky had once been popular with the Czech workers, but had alienated them by harsh complaints and horny-handed methods of spurring production...
LLOYD ABNER MASHBURN, 55, California's labor commissioner, to be Under Secretary of Labor. A veteran trade unionist (he still belongs to Local 42 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A.F.L.), stocky, forceful Mashburn has been active in Los Angeles labor leadership, was brought into the state government in 1951 by Governor Earl Warren. Unlike his new boss, Labor Secretary-Designate Durkin, Mashburn is a Republican...