Word: menials
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...Texas was floor leader of the Democratic House minority. Garner and his crony, Texas Representative Sam Rayburn, were ever on the lookout for promising newcomers, and they liked the look of the freshman from Boston. McCormack voted his party's line undeviatingly. He worked diligently at the menial committee assignments that are a new Congressman's lot, and he quickly learned the procedural rules of the House...
...with mass assembly. In steel mills and chemical plants, yesterday's blue-collar worker now wears white overalls, sits at a pushbutton panel as massive as a cathedral organ, and takes home a technician's fat pay envelope. What computers did for clerks was to eliminate the menial paper shuffling, permitting people to spend their energies on more creative and profitable work. It could well be that computers are propelling the U.S. toward an era when the American worker can have his cake and eat it too: the material rewards of mass-produced abundance and the satisfaction that...
...Much You Pay?" The Cubans have competed fiercely, especially with the city's Negroes, for menial jobs. Negro domestics have started a slanderous whispering campaign, admitting that Cuban women will work for less, but claiming they cannot be trusted around husbands in the households where they are employed. A Miami druggist explains another cause for resentment: "A Cuban comes in here and says in broken English. 'How much you pay your soda fountain dishwasher?' I tell him. and he offers to work for half as much...
...want to ensure that for the rest of my life at least my family and I shall always have somebody about to do the menial jobs around my home-jobs like digging holes for trees, looking after the younger children, fetching and carrying, serving drinks to my guests and waiting at my table...
...overwhelming mass of the indigenas, there is no future whatsoever beyond menial labor. Under the obligatory labor system, the government rounds up tens of thousands of blacks annually, proclaims them to be "idle.'' and assigns them to public works projects for stints of six months at wages ranging from $2 to $5 a month...