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...Bourgeois of the world, unite!" This seemed destined to be the newest battle cry of the Communist Party, whose self-imposed historic mission is the destruction of the bourgeoisie. The "Peace Front" recently launched in Italy (see below) aims to entice not only the proletariat, but white-collar workers," small businessmen and anyone else gullible enough to fall for Communism's pseudo-democratic propaganda. In Paris, France's No. 2 Communist Jacques Duclos last week wooed the matronly middle class like a Red Bluebeard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard & the Bourgeoisie | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...sort of jobs that will satisfy them. But this argument is weakened by Commission figures that show the need for 1,000,000 teachers and 56,000 doctors within a decade. And the education itself need not be aimed at producing a horde of claimants for polished white-collar jobs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education: General | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

...Bill Jones, the white-collar worker . . . because of his sincerity, hard work, and, above all, his PATIENCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...maiden, pocket-sized issue went to 4,000 white-collar girls-and used up all the subscription money they had paid in. To keep going, Betty went to a bank (for $1,000), to Dallas Oilman Harold D. Byrd (for $5,000 and a partnership), and to 90 Texans whom she invited to a free chicken dinner. With dessert she served a 45-minute speech, talked 45 of her guests into buying $8,600 worth of stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Among Us Girls | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...ceiling off prices. Government statistics showed that Big Labor's weekly income had more than kept pace with prices since 1941 (see chart below). Big Labor had won these gains at the expense of unorganized workers, old-age pensioners, and professional and white-collar workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Those High Prices | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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