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Avram Glazer is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and who have purchased a controlling interest in Manchester United, an important European football club based in Manchester, England. ... Benjamin Glazer (May 7, 1887 - March 18, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning writer, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Bryan Glazer is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and who have purchased a controlling interest in Manchester United, an important European football club based in Manchester, England. ... Edward Glazer is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and who have purchased a controlling interest in Manchester United, an important European football club based in Manchester, England. ... Joel Glazer is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and who have purchased a controlling interest in Manchester United, an important European football club based in Manchester, England. ... Malcolm Glazer Malcolm Irving Glazer (born 1928 in Rochester, New York) is an American businessman and sports-team owner. ... Nathan Glazer (b. ... Phyllis Glazer is the founder of Mothers Organized to Stop Environmental Sin (1992); a Winona, Texas, support group for victims of environmental pollution. ... Thomas Zachariah Glazer (September 2, 1914 - February 21, 2003) was a folk singer/songwriter. ... Glaser // Herkunft und Bedeutung Der Name Glaser ist vom Beruf oder der TÃ¤tigkeit des Glasers abgeleitet. ... Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the Slovene language. ...

Joe Glazer, at 88; his music set tone for labor movement - The Boston Globe (1008 words)
	Glazer used his ability to sing and play to help land a job with the Textile Workers Union of America, which was looking for someone to boost the morale of striking millworkers on picket lines across the South and New England.
	Glazer in the 1950s was the union version of ``We Shall Overcome," derived from Charles Tindley's 1900 hymn, ``I'll Overcome Some Day," which, by the 1960s, became the anthem of the US civil rights movement.
	Glazer was among a generation of intellectuals attracted to the mid-20th-century industrial unionism exemplified by the Congress of Industrial Organizations as the most promising hope for social justice for working men and women in the United States.

Joe Glazer; Music Set Tone for Labor Movement - washingtonpost.com (1138 words)
	Joe Glazer, the troubadour of the U.S. labor movement who performed, composed and collected the songs of work and protest for 60 years around the globe, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Sept. 19 at his home in Chevy Chase.
	Glazer performed over a lifetime at countless union rallies and conventions, at civil rights marches, at campaign rallies for Democratic Party candidates at all levels and at hundreds of civic events in the Washington area, where he lived most of his adult life.
	Glazer made his living as a labor educator for two trade unions and the U.S. Information Agency, which dispatched him to Mexico during the administration of President John F. Kennedy.

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