Claire Frock strike ends with wage adjustment dispute
In Thurmont the Claire Frock workers who struck over wage cuts after a New York firm bought the company return to work. An arbitrator ruled the old owner must fund promised wages above current offers for eight more months, after which the new owner I Appel may renegotiate. The outcome leaves ongoing labor tension unresolved.
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Claire Frock
New York
Thurmont
I. Appel
Frederick County
Bork Nomination Stumbles Amid Southern Politics and Backlash
Annapolis Bureau Chief Bob Reid reports that Judge Robert Bork's Senate confirmation battle faced fierce liberal opposition, a powerful public relations campaign led by People for the American Way, and crucial Southern Democrat resistance driven by race and local electorates. Tradeoffs and miscalculations by the White House, Reagan's team, and the campaign's tone shaped a decisive political setback.
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Robert H. Bork
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Judge Bork
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Ronald Reagan
White House
Congress
Reagan
Senate
Bork
Powell
United States
Joe Biden
Teddy Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
People For the
American Way
People For the American Way
Gregory Peck
Attila the Hun
Senate Committee
Robert Bork
Harold Weisberg
J. Clifford Wallace
San Diego
Patrick Higgenbotham
Dallas
Bob Reid
Annapolis
Frederick News Post
Iran Shape in Bekaa Valley Fiefdom Raises Tensions
An eyewitness account describes Iran and Syria building influence in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Iran's ayatollahs edge toward control via base in Baalbek, funding, and religious indoctrination while Syria limits arms flows and terrorism moves, avoiding direct confrontation. The piece also notes U.S. political division and advisory briefings amid the Cold War pressures.
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Syria
Iran
Bekaa
Lebanon
Barbara Newman
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah
Bedlam
Bekaa Valley
Baalbek
Khomeini
Damascus
Beirut
Newman
Nemo
White House
Howard Baker
Baker
Ken Duberstein
Tom Griscom
Reagan
Griscom
Duberstein
Frank Carlucci
United Feature Syndicate
Ine
Intervention Fails to Halt Brunswick Post Office Transfer
Baltimore Mayor Howard W. Jackson intervened to stop the Post Office deal in Brunswick but could not cancel the binding contract to move the office. Hood College officials and Mount St. Mary’s College prepare for inaugurations with university representatives attending. Chilly weather and large crowds mark the 1937 fair, with coats in evidence as spectators endure the drizzle.
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Howard W. Jackson
Baltimore
Brunswick
Post Office Department
Hood College Scholars Lecture features Dr. Jessie Bernard
Dr. Jessie Bernard, a Penn State sociologist, spoke at Hood College on the Scholars Joys Satisfactions and Problems lecture in the Totem Arts Center. The event honored fourteen Hood scholars for two years of achievement. The Junior Women's Clubs of Frederick sponsored a red white and blue fashion show luncheon at the Holiday Inn to benefit the Senior Fellowship Center. Political and business leaders toured an aluminum reduction plant prototype planned for Frederick, shown at Ferndale Washington near Seattle.
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Jessie Bernard
Hood College
Bernard
Pennsylvania State University
Totem Arts Center
Frederick
Holiday Inn
Betty Davis
Haber’s
South Court Street
Ferndale
Wash
Seattle
How a defeat of Bork was plotted
A Scripps Howard News Service analysis outlines the disciplined, message driven anti Bork campaign. It details coalition building surpassing 300 groups and the strategic use of polling to target Southern Democrats and moderate Republicans. It notes the televised ads financed by People for the American Way with Gregory Peck as the spokesman.
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Syria
Ayatollah Khomeini
Newman
Ayatollah
Iraq
Khomeini
Ashington
Robert Bork
Supreme Court
Bork
Senate
Reagan
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
Dixie
Antiwork
Dan Payne
Denilon
Anti- Bork
Norman Lear
People For the American Way
Gregory Peck
Peck
Lear
Main Street
Atticus Finch
Morning In America
KKK
Bork confirmation and civil rights debates in 1980s policy ties
The passage analyzes attacks on Judge Robert Bork and defends his civil rights record. It links Bork's positions with NAACP Legal Defense Fund cases, notes collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and contrasts Scalia's voting with Bork's on equal terms. It argues critics misframe Bork as anti civil rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Bork
U.S. Supreme Court
Sen
Joe McCarthy
Bork
Supreme Court
New York City
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
NAACP
Teamsters Union
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Robert C. Reid
Borke
Grafeith
Anderson
News-Post
Lawrence Sheridan
Mount St. Mary’s College
Joseph H. Apple
Hood
Ruth V. Pope
George Washington University
Grace E. Lippy
Wilson College
Christopher Matthews
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Thomas Kiley
Michael Denilon
Kiley
South
Scripps Baward News Service
Thomas Sowell
Antonin Scalia
Court of Appeals
Scalia
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