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Purple Prose and Trade Unions In The Slaves Image
Inez Robb lampoons purple prose in a 1959 column, critiquing union leaders and management for using slave imagery. She contrasts George Meany and Walter Reuther with New York’s Robert Moses, noting the at times comic effect of invective in a statistical age.
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Purple Prose
New York
Robert Moses
George Meany
AF L.c.lco
Landrum- Griffin
David McDonald
William Jennings Bryan
Louis Pierre
Steel Union
U.S.W. of A
Ike
Wal
Ter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
McDonald
Meany
Reuther
Moses
Billingsgate