Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremen and superintendents in shirt sleeves-in all, perhaps, 200 men-went down into the pens to water 75,000 thirsty cattle. The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking. So all day the foremen and white collar workers labored alone. The thirsty beasts balked at being driven from pen to pen, at being sorted out by inexperienced hands. All day long the air above the yards was filled with an unending din-the bellowing of parched, tortured cattle...
...line between the white-collar class and the no-collar class began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...irrigated the sugar-cane fields, had children who were U. S. citizens. The second and third generation of field workers, after much free schooling, refused to live and do as their forebears. So the importation of labor went on and Depression caught the islands with a far larger white-collar population than an agricultural land can easily support...
Crisp and formal in blue serge and high wing collar, Premier John Brownlee of the Province of Alberta sat in court at Edmonton last week with his sweetly sedate wife to hear himself accused of "enticement and seduction...
Should the Guild put aside its "white collar complex" and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor, like the shirt-sleeved compositors upstairs and the overalled pressmen down? The convention sidestepped that fundamental question by adopting the proposal of its president, shaggy, drawling Heywood Broun, to postpone discussion for a year. Then the delegates opened their arms in welcome to their newest hero...