Word: menials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited to public contract but whose public hearings can be powerful in dealing with private business. Field's, faced with an implied threat of public hearings and a supertight labor market, relented and wrote the commission that it had decided to give "a number of jobs, some menial, some not so menial," to qualified Negroes...
Foucauld was something of a problem monk. Postponing his ordination as a priest, he spent three years as a menial for an abbess of a convent at Nazareth...
...will not tell little Winnie that he is a millionaire: "He grabs at everything in sight at the toy store, [but] I tell him: 'We can't afford it, dear.'" Bobo described herself as broke, an installment-plan buyer, knee-deep in cooking and other menial household chores. When told that her husband's lawyers had said that Winthrop had given her a tax-free $128,000 since their separation, Bobo was "absolutely flabbergasted." Said she: "Untrue . . . absolutely disgusting." But all Bobo really wants, she indicated, is a reconciliation: "I love Winthrop. I always have. After...
...Army to give up the 24,000 German servants who cook and scrub for the families of officers and noncoms in the occupation forces-with their wages paid by Germany. The Army would not hear of it. U.S. officers' and men's wives might have to do menial work, and that would have an "unfortunate effect on prestige and morale." Moreover, explained the Army solemnly, wives in outlying areas often have to travel 50 miles to buy groceries at PXs and, without servants to stay home and guard the houses, burglaries would skyrocket...
...Dunn's goal in life is to set a good example for his people, he has not been discouraged by the menial jobs he has had to take; in each, he has simply tried to do his best. Quite naturally, though, he resents the fact that "They'll teach you, then give you no opportunity to use the training." This was the case with him during the first World War, when, as a licensed radio operator with a white friend for the greatly needed post of radio operator in the Navy. He was told that "the Navy doesn't make...