Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, the poor fish, is wet to the gills, when it says: "In short, labor has a good thing in the war, a better thing than any other large group except possibly the farmers, a good thing that looks bad compared to the sacrifices made by men in the armed forces" [TIME, March...
...this kind of flying takes resourceful, air-wise pilots. A.F.F.C. has them. South Atlantic ferry pilots, a poker-playing, cocksure crowd, came from U.S. airlines, the Army Air Corps, from dogfights over Spain and China. Mostly poor, civilian pilots make up to $1,000 monthly for what they call easy work. Like all good pilots, they love their planes-in Brazil sleep in jerry-built airport shacks to guard against sabotage. But the planes get wrecked in Africa anyway; one-third of the first 18 ferry-delivered ships were damaged within a few days after delivery...
Perhaps those who appreciated him most were the 8,000 women in Chicago's slums whom Dr. DeLee had delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...
Crimson booters who are expected to participate include Dave Ives, 1940 Varsity captain, Roger Oresman, Captain-elect Dick Gifford, Danny Poor, and Jack Clarke...
...while the other two-thirds of the voters have no say in the matter. This minority has entrenched itself in power in each of these States and will go to almost any extreme to maintain the status quo--their present jobs and their unchallenged political supremacy. To have the poor farmer and laborer get the vote would be to sign away their power and prestige. New men, in most cases, would most likely be elected--men who would try to help the submarginal farmer, the tenants, and unorganized labor...