Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union's strapping unborn infant-which will not officially assume statehood until early 1959-already thinks it knows the name of its first elected Governor: Democrat William A. Egan, 43. Egan is running a one-sided contest against Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, Fairbanks insurance man, former Territorial Senator and longtime political catechist to Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost...
...pictures with Knowland, he has not gone so far as to verbally acknowledge Knowland as a running mate or to endorse his stand for a state right-to-work law. Most party candidates feel the same way. As undaunted as ever, Knowland counts on a silent vote from rebellious union members, hopes major California appearances by President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon this month will give him a big lift...
...veto of a state sales-tax increase against Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed by $17,500 of Teamsters' Union funds and have a Hoffa-signed check to prove it. Under Iowa law, out-of-state campaign funds are illegal-but the statute...
...YORK'S Democratic Governor William Averell Harriman, 66, is another multimillionaire who took the high road to politics. His famed father, E. H. Harriman, a onetime messenger boy, parlayed imagination and aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale...
...most important of these research institutions, Guber said, is the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union at Moscow. There are several other research centers in the USSR, he said; but where a locality has none there is often a field house or a division of the Moscow center...