Word: transients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
Frank Slicker Moran is a hearty, massive, melodious-voiced realestate broker who auctions whole villages-the little towns of western Pennsylvania that have been left to wither by the bankrupt or transient industries that built them. A former International League baseball umpire, Realtor Moran got his idea nine years ago while recuperating from an internal hemorrhage. "I think," says he, "that I've sold more towns than anybody else in the U. S." Last week he sold his eighth: Pattontown, Pa., a scraggly Westmoreland County hamlet of seven farms, 28 houses, a mercantile building...
...onslaught- one speech, only one. But the Senator stood pat on his let-it-come-to-me position, wrote to friends: ". . . The Presidential decision this year is too desperately important. . . . The choice of the convention should flow from the deliberative judgment of the American people and not from the transient impulse of a campaign tour...
Reno, Nevada, besides being a divorce mill, is a town of 18,500, with cinemas, dance halls, churches, a high school, a business college, a university (University of Nevada). Between the transient divorce-seekers and the permanent population of Reno there is a sharp line. Reno boys & girls pay no attention to its wide-open gambling halls. At its bars they drink only soft drinks. Few of them smoke...