Word: winton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the Administration last week issued a warning that more violence could only lead to adverse reaction. Radicals, Postmaster General Winton Blount told a national convention of Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity, "offer destruction, but no solution. Perhaps the exalting of ignorance is excusable to a point. But finally the combination of ignorance and rebellion is too explosive to tolerate. Our history shows all too clearly in which direction the middle class moves when it is frightened, angry or threatened. It goes to the right, not to the left. The more frightened it becomes, the angrier it gets, the more...
Postmaster General Winton Blount could only move to lessen the strike's effects, not to end the walkout. Mail destined for affected cities was embargoed, and began piling up by the ton. Mailboxes were ordered sealed. Jailing workers or union officials, a weapon allowed by statute, promised only a tauter confrontation. A court order barring the strike was ignored by the rank and file, who courted contempt citations...
Last May, President Nixon said: "Total reform of the nation's postal system is absolutely essential." He and Postmaster General Winton Blount, like O'Brien before them, proposed that the Post Office be taken out of the Government and set up as an autonomous corporation. It would be owned by the Government but free from direct political pressure. The corporation would have the power to set postal rates, subject to a congressional veto, raise capital and negotiate salaries. It would aim at being self-supporting by 1976. Nixon folded into the proposal his previously announced plans to remove...
...Vogel) spends most of his time hanging out with a casually amoral employee of his grandfather's named Boon Hogganbeck (Steve McQueen). When Grandfather (Will Geer) and the rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly comely employee...