Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust-grimed from years of trying to make saves in right or left field. It is hard to tell, however, which team they are on. Last week two men who have often been on opposite sides-Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Alex Rose, the state's Liberal Party chieftain-joined to announce that they had agreed on who should be the next mayor. Their stated purpose was to save New York City after eight years of erratic rule by Republican-turned-Democrat John Vliet Lindsay, who has dropped out of the race...
Promising indictments "within ten days," Gold said that a Brooklyn grand jury would be given evidence involving "nearly 200" legitimate businesses that have been infiltrated or taken over by the Mob. Subpoenas were served on Mafia Chieftain Tramunti, the compromise successor to the leadership of the once powerful family run by the late Thomas Luchese, and at least three local officials...
Ever since he persuaded the AFL-CIO executive council to stay neutral in the presidential campaign, Labor Chieftain George Meany has become less and less neutral. Shortly after the July executive-council meeting, he was seen golfing with President Nixon. "If he is really neutral," growled William Winpisinger, a vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, "he owes McGovern four hours of golf." In a speech, Meany accused the Democratic nominee of running down big labor: "He's talking about you, he's talking about me." After that he sent a letter to state...
...company that has raised its prices during Phase II may not increase its margins-that is, profits as a percentage of sales-above what they were in a certain base period. The base is the average of the best two years between 1968 and 1970. Many a corporate chieftain deeply wants to be out from under those constraints because earnings are rolling in faster than they have in years...
...filibuster that was preventing a vote on repeal of the right-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act-a sacred matter with labor. He subsequently cast many other votes that were considered antilabor. To Meany, he was an ingrate. He made no notable effort to conciliate the labor chieftain. Typically, he said that since he had made a mistake on right-to-work, Meany should confess that he had been wrong about the Viet Nam War. By convention time, Meany was mad enough to have the AFL-CIO distribute a 46-page attack on McGovern's legislative record...