Word: brotherhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned up in Chester. His mission: switching White's workers from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to a shadowy, thug-ridden outfit called the Interstate Industrial Union. Last week, after White fired a few employees who were collaborating with Dugan. Intruder Dugan set up a picket line outside the plant...
Despite their weakening brotherhood and refined ambitions, most fraternities are retaining their general systems of rushing, pledging and initiations. The fraternal recruitment occurs twice a year, with a "rushing period" each fall and spring. The festival begins when the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) calls an organization meeting of all those interested in rushing. The rushees are told the rules of the game and are obliged to complete forms, stating whether they are a "legacy" to any fraternity...
...theory of Marx, despite "mistakes," is the one solution to modern needs for a "true brotherhood of man," Paul M. Sweezy '31, a former assistant professor of Economics, said in a speech last night before the Harvard Socialist Club...
...lieutenant in the July revolt, hotheaded Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, soon took the burning issue from the barracks to the streets. He rushed about the country stirring up crowds for speedy union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. Kassem preferred to talk fervently of brotherhood with Nasser, while keeping Iraq independent...
...Defiant Ones. A length of chain ties a couple of escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) together with a well-forged lesson about brotherhood...