Word: white-collar
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...chart) from census statistics, Government reports, etc., has made his own calculation of the U.S. voting population by such adjustments as canceling out non-voting Southern Negroes & poor whites. He knows, for instance, that 28% of U.S. voters live in the Middle Atlantic states, that 34% of them live in cities of over 100,000 population, that only 23% of them are of average means (i.e., skilled workers, white-collar employees, small shopkeepers), that 43% of them are between the ages of 30 and 49. If necessary, Gallup statisticians can dig deeper: 16% of them are farmers; 42% of them...
...Cudahy's Kansas City plant, women packinghouse workers walked the picket line wearing grease-smeared raincoats-thereby hoping to keep the white-collar office workers, who had walked through their lines before, from doing it again...
...Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read the Collect...
...Curb Exchanges. Raucous and cocky, they greeted brokers and clerks with jeers, catcalls and boos. Girls who went into the building entered into a bedlam of epithets such as "stinking tomato" and "scab bitch." Wall Street wondered what had happened: the pickets did not seem to be the white-collar clerks, runners and telephone operators of the A.F.L. United Financial Employes, who had called a strike at the exchanges. Most of them weren...
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...