Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Rice Pudding. So Hagueism became a memory. Rice Pudding Day (when city, county and state job holders kicked back 3% of their annual salaries to a Boss Hague "campaign fund"), the fixed ballot boxes, the voting of the dead, the bullyboys beating up poll watchers, the cops swinging nightsticks on labor organizers-all that became history...
Willie Lurye was a mild-looking, curly-haired little fellow who would give a man the shirt off his back, people said. Like his Papa, who had been a cigar maker in Sam Gompers' union, he was hot for unions. Willie was a dress presser in the biggest in New York, the International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks...
...streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift. The airlift planes still droned on, piling up supplies...
...burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away. On their way to see relatives in the West, or to transact long-delayed business, they all expected to return...
...going, young man?" he asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren't you? That's fine. And now a few words from Herr Kreikmeyer, president of the railways...