Word: files
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...selling the lots at prices ranging from $150 to $1,000. Customers were assured, continued the indictment, that the lots were "all on high, dry and rolling land," when in fact many were "so low and permeated with water as to make them unsuitable" for building. Thus rank-and-file Teamsters were high-pressured and hornswoggled into buying back, at inflated prices, the land that had been purchased with Teamster funds. At the same time, said the Florida grand jury, Hoffa and his pals were using Sun Valley profits for their personal benefit...
...executive council of the A.F.L.C.I.O., where Maurice still ranks as a national vice president, he often sat through four-hour sessions without opening his mouth, soon became known as "Maurice the Silent." In the subsidized biography of Big Bill Hutcheson (for which the union, if not its rank-and-file members, cheerfully paid $310,000), Author Maxwell Raddock described Maurice: "He seems to possess all the qualities of a leader; he is tall, he has a good heart, and he is moderate in everything, even in the use of his intelligence...
...five minutes before nine the warning bell clanged, and the chattering parliamentarians in the lobby began to file into the House to take their seats. Precisely on the hour, a voice raised the traditional cry "Mistah Speakah," and the legislators froze as a bemedaled attendant solemnly descended the nine red-carpeted steps into the well of the House and laid a golden mace on the table separating the government front benches from those of the opposition. After a prayer calling down God's protection on the nation and Queen Elizabeth II, the Speaker, in his English-accented English, called...
...look here. You are fooling yourself. You are depriving yourself of all that makes your life a life. You are letting yourself slip scrapily down the coarse file of pure scholarship. You will find talking to our Managing Editor a good deal easier than hobnobbing with a wounded puma. You will discover that Radcliffe editors do not, actually, devour their young alive. No candidate has ever crawled into University' Hall with the news that he was made to run on beds of broken glass...
...York, top U.N. officials have coldly charged that all this represents a Belgian attempt to regain power in the Congo-an accusation to which Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny hotly replied last week with the implicit threat of a Belgian walkout from the U.N. But many a rank-and-file U.N. worker in the Congo is glad enough to see the Belgians return. "Why shouldn't they come back?" asked one U.N. civil affairs officer. "They've forgotten more about this place than we'll ever learn...