Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth in a class of 600. At I.U. Law School he graduated first in his class, dashed home to northwestern Indiana's Jasper County to win the first of five...
...opinion makers as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stu Symington and Texas' Lyndon Johnson. He had former Disarmament Aide Harold Stassen over for a private lunch at the Russian embassy. Mikoyan even ran the spiel again for the benefit of top labor union bosses James Carey and Walter Reuther (absent: A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s hornyhanded President George Meany, who said he would "not meet Mikoyan any time or place...
Nevertheless, compared to the youthful hotheads of Togoland's vociferous Juvento Party, Olympic had turned out to be a moderate. The Juvento demand ouster of the French and union with Ghana. It was strange, of course, that the Ghanaians, who had so much to gain from Togoland's Juvento and so much to lose with Olympio, should be the very ones to warn of a Juvento plot against him. But the French apparently did not take time to think about that...
...Leopard Skin. Among the blacks there had sprung up a quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
Negrão de Lima happily reported the deal was off. "We are not initiating any new commercial-much less political-relations with the Soviet Union," he said. "We are not doing business with Soviet Russia, and you can quote...