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Under questioning by Arkansas' John McClellan and his staff last week, officials of San Francisco's 24,000-member Local No. 3 told of lavish till-raiding under tough old (75) Victor S. Swanson, who bossed the local from 1941 until the I.U.O.E.'s executive board elbowed him out last summer. Items...
...report of a successful operation to reporters three minutes after the surgeons had finished and 16 minutes before the President was wheeled back to his hospital room. In 36 hours Hagerty held 14 press conferences, but he generally kept newsmen and doctors apart, was by no means so lavish with medical details as in Denver. Says Hagerty: "A presidential heart attack is the property of the people. But we did not consider the ileitis something that endangered the President's life...
...show the boys that he is earning his pay and perquisites, a big-time labor leader has to compete with heads of other unions in thinking up lavish demands to put before management at bargaining time. For the Steelworkers' suave President Dave McDonald, this problem was already worrisome, even though his union's contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy...
...business, and the Treasury takes in so much money that it actually has a problem spending it. In the last fiscal year, expenditures came to a record $1.1 billion, but income (60% from oil) reached a record $1.6 billion. To get rid of it all, the government depends on lavish public works totaling 57% of the budget. Grafters do their bit to balance the books by taking from 10% to 30% on contracts...
Brothers & Arms. Elected President after deposing the old Bey of Tunis last summer, Bourguiba moved into a lavish, state-owned seaside villa in Carthage, told aides to take care of Tunisia's other problems, and turned his own attention to winning peace in Algeria. His immediate purpose is to get arms enough to stop French forces from chasing rebels across his Algerian frontier under the doctrine of "hot pursuit." To get them he has not hesitated to use Communist or Egyptian arms offers to underscore his independence of the French over the Algerian fight...