Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers, etc.), get Negroes into apprentice training programs now closed to them, and lift Negroes to loftier positions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. command. Chapters of Randolph's all-Negro group are abuilding from New York to the Pacific Coast. Despite Meany's opposition to such racially based splinter groups, the founding convention is set for Detroit this May. And Meany's whittling of Congressman Powell cannot help sharpening the splinters...
...hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group was himself stoned to unconsciousness as he tried to quell the agitators...
Kasavubu's Abako group campaigned for a loose federal system in the new Congo, since its strength is mostly confined to the Leopoldville province. Lumumba, whose party group has wider geographical sup port, felt he would do better with a centralized regime. In the end the Belgians worked out a compromise modeled on the U.S. system with elaborate assurances of local and provincial authority...
...American collector gave a group of 50-odd sculptures to Israel's National Museum. The collector: a) Robert Lehman...
...teaching college English." The loss of support means the erosion of the "intellectual respectability" of the union movement. It is a loss that labor can ill afford, for then the "union movement becomes a grand association of experts in propaganda and in lobbying for a special interest group...