Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people and their relations in the U.S." Had he gone far enough to win back the ethnic voters? On the surface, it appeared that he had. Campaigning in the East last week, he ran into no heckling in ethnic neighborhoods. In Yonkers, N.Y., he was cheered by crowds waving SLOVAK AMERICANS FOR FORD signs. In Union, N.J., he was greeted with signs proclaiming JA CIE KOCHAM (Polish for "I love you"). But these were largely Republican areas. Ethnics who continue to resent his statement may be less visible, though just as capable of going to the polling booth. As Masewski...
...Catholic welfare agency sent the Kocos to New York, and another Slovak offered him a job in Detroit, sifting coal. "We arrived here without a winter coat," says Agnes. "We had nothing. Nothing." After several months of sifting coal, Koco got a job as a machinist, making gears at Massey-Ferguson. Then came a layoff. Koco turned to making boxes. He was a press operator. He worked part time as a school janitor (and studied English). He went back to Massey-Ferguson, was laid off three weeks ago. Now Agnes has found a job there, operating a grinding and shaving...
...Stalin era, has "consolidated" the Communist Party, cutting back its membership by almost one-half, to a total of 1,000,000. Communists thus expelled have usually lost their jobs, together with their party cards. Former Party Chief Alexander Dubček now works as a clerk in the Slovak forestry department, but he earns more than twice as much as hundreds of thousands of minor officials who were ousted with him. Dubček recently wrote to a friend: "If I am getting paid for what I know about this job, then 3,200 crowns [about $230] a month...
...delivering 120 new trailers a day, and is still far behind the demand. But the majority of Wilkes-Barre citizens hope one day to repair or rebuild their own houses. Many Wyoming Valley residents are of Polish and Slovak stock. Their hearts are in their homes; to possess a home is to possess everything. And they are the core of the movement to bring the valley back...
...American politics, Novak's plea for ethnic power can sound like the oldest American politics; one hears the rhetoric of a new Tammany promising the Slovak grandmother prune dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most...