Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Robeson, a leftwinger herself, wrote a letter to the Springfield (Mass.) Union. It was a little slick, and studded with the tag ends of party phrases, but also in it were sentences which showed a little of what it meant to be famously unpopular in the U.S. Excerpts...
Handyman. In Lincoln, Mass., John Joseph Kelliher, 69, decided that he would retire because of poor health, left vacant the jobs of police chief, constable, water commissioner, water department superintendent, moth superintendent, slaughtering inspector, dog officer and sealer of weights & measures...
Under orders from SCAP to balance its budget, the Japanese government had decided to raise taxes, end subsidies to manufacturers and fire 270,000 government employees. To Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the Japanese National Railways Corp., fell the job of starting off the mass dismissals. Shimoyama joked with friends: "With these kubikiri [dismissals -literally, "neck cuttings"], I may get it in the neck myself...
...Farmers," he added, "are running into debt because of low government prices for their forced food deliveries; they like our support of higher prices. Many merchants and businessmen are going bankrupt because of high taxes, so they join our mass demonstrations for low taxes . . . Present conditions have caused a clear left tendency...
...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...