Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BENJAMIN H. KIZER Spokane, Wash...
...years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
Norman Gessert, until recently a Teamster employee, who was picked up in Ellensburg, Wash, by a U.S. marshal after he had dodged the committee's subpoena servers for two months. Gessert, a cousin of Beck's wife Dorothy, took the Fifth Amendment 71 times in 21 minutes, refused to answer even when McClellan asked if he knew his counsel. Said McClellan: "I just wanted to see how ridiculous and how frivolous these things can get when people find themselves in a situation such...
Harold Pratt '59, of Winthrop House and Oyster Bay, N.Y., was chosen assistant varsity manager, while William Garrison '59, of Dunster House and Tacoma, Wash., will manage the J.V.'s. John Reidy '60, of Massachusetts Hall and Brookline, won the freshman managerial competition...