Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe Union of Students...
...Crow" in the American Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone to see President Roosevelt to obtain a change of that policy, and found that the only place where Randolph and I could eat was in Union Station, since restaurants in the nation's capital would not serve blacks. I wrote about this in The New Leader. Shortly thereafter, I found to my dismay that Goebbels had reprinted and broadcast these pieces to show the "hypocrisy" of American democracy. Should we have refrained from continuing to write such stories...
...This undermined the market for paints based on linseed oil, which is made from flax. Companies that processed flaxseed had to find another oil to keep their machinery busy. Cargill Inc., the huge Minneapolis grain dealer, in 1966 dispatched a researcher to get some sunflower seeds from the Soviet Union, which is the leading producer. At the same time, Cargill and rival Honeymead Products set out to persuade farmers to try the new crop. That was not easy; the companies had to promise skeptical growers that they would buy their entire flower harvests at prices above the going rates...
...achievement. The movement includes public interest advocates in Savannah, Ga., publishers of the Measuring Cup, a newsletter devoted solely to testing reform; the National P.T.A.; the United States Student Association; Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and the National Education Association, a union of some 1.8 million teachers and school officials...
Until now, no one has attempted to explain why Clover killed herself. Adams never writes about his wife in his autobiography. From outward appearances, theirs was a childless union of matched temperaments enjoying similar tastes, opinions and well-bred friends in Boston, Washington and London. Friedrich fills that gap with a fresh supply of letters, observations and a perceptive linkage of occurrences that could have turned Clover's basic melancholia into self-destruction...