Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The last of eight children of a Russian immigrant family, Goldberg grew up on Chicago's West Side, went to work as a delivery boy in a shoe factory (for $3.80 a week) at the age of twelve, and won his law degree at Northwestern University at 20. He...
At first, Goldberg was a young corporation lawyer, but after representing the Newspaper Guild in a strike against Hearst in 1938, he became a labor specialist. (During the war he served with distinction as the OSS contact with Europe's underground labor movement.) In 1948 Goldberg committed himself to...
His many legal chores for the labor movement have paid him handsomely: Goldberg makes more than $100,000 a year, keeps an interest in his Chicago law firm, owns part of a Caribbean hotel chain. Before he takes the oath of office, though, he plans to drop all of his...
Goldberg might very well bring Government into labor disputes more quickly than did his predecessor and close friend, Secretary James Mitchell. But Goldberg claims to have no illusions about the divine rights of the workingman. "What is obviously called for," he told the National Association of Manufacturers last fortnight, "is...
A smallish, owlish man, Goldberg is as alert as a chipmunk, packs an astonishing amount of stamina and energy (in the thick of marathon negotiations, he switches from Sanka to coffee). Although his manner is amiable, he is as tough as whip leather at the bargaining table.