Word: class
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...
...defined by Promoter Knoble's smoothly professional copy, function of the Alliance is first to collect information about the problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...least attention is the power of the Nazis with the workers," wrote Sheean. "The proletariat of Vienna had little reason to love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime the proletariat has been rapidly absorbed into . . . the Arbeitsfront [labor front...
Concluded Sheean: "The aristocrats. Jews, liberals and intellectuals, without much direct knowledge of the working class, tend to believe that the Viennese workers are anti-Nazi, but can never produce a shred of objective evidence to that effect. ... It is my impression that the Nazi control over Viennese workers is now already complete, and that any anti-Nazi hope, based on a supposed dissatisfaction of the proletarians, is vain and futile...
...cinema stars belong to a social class of their own which has no equivalent in England. This does not inconvenience Gracie Fields who prefers to live in a style more in keeping with her humble origins. In London, her most ostentatious possession is a red brick house on Finchley Road. She sold her Rolls-Royce because "it was too posh for me,'' rides in a Buick...