Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staging is no coincidence. It is with an appeal to patriotism, stability and law and order that Nixon hopes to place the blue collar and hardhat firmly in the company of the Silent Majority that he considers his own. As Political Analyst Richard Scammon observes: "What is unusual is that until now, Republicans have generally not considered such a large appeal to labor as worthwhile. Now they...
Club Klan. Few of the segregation academies charge less than $40 a month tuition, and only a handful of blue-collar whites can afford such fees. As a result they feel that they are being deserted by their wealthier neighbors. Greenville Lawyer J. Wesley Watkins III believes that their resentment is justified. "The poor white people have been listening to the leadership all these years, and were told to cool it," he says. "Now the 'country-club klan,' as we call them, have pulled out on the poor whites and run for the private schools...
...actresses played out "a woman's place": she enters the world as "sugar and spice," looks forward to being "Daddy's little girl," then becomes a newlywed who "whistles while she works" and ends up as an "everyday housewife" whose world is circumscribed by "ring around the collar" and who dreams only of winning daytime television glory as "Queen...
Forgotten People. The chances of a strike are heightened by a mood of simmering discontent among the nation's blue-collar workers, who feel themselves victimized by inflation, trapped in unpleasant jobs and neglected by the rest of the U.S. "These men are on a treadmill, chasing the illusion of higher living standards," Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow recently observed in a much remarked study. "They feel like 'forgotten people.'" Blue-collar workers in many states, Rosow notes, often have incomes only a notch above welfare payments, and they resent being taxed to pay for special benefits...
Including a recently approved 6% across-the-board raise, the pay of the typical white-collar civil servant has been increased by about 55% in the past decade. To halt what had been an exodus of managers and key technicians from Government, salaries for the so-called supergrades, GS-16 to GS-18, have been raised as much as 80%. A GS-18 employee, typically a division chief in a department, earned $18,500 in 1960; today the pay is $35,505. Many private employers consider the top rates to be outrageously high. They complain that they cannot afford...