Word: white-collar
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Like most U.S. white-collar workers, Buffalo's teachers had not thought of themselves as union labor: only 500 had joined either the A.F.L. or C.I.O. teachers' unions (which supported, but did not declare, the strike). Buffalo's walkout was the work of the independent Buffalo Teachers Federation, which insisted even on the picket line that it was a "professional association" and not a union...
...personnel prescribed men of professional training and caliber--lawyers, newspapermen, etc. I was flattered when selected, considering myself a green college undergraduate who hardly satisfied the prerequisites. When I arrived at Washington and Lee, however, I found my classmates were everything from butchers up, the majority of them being white-collar workers with a high school or a year or two of college education at best. Only a handful met the circular requirements...
...From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram Flaxer. All that weary Phil Murray hoped to get from such a committee was a formula for peace...
...drastic decision. For five long years, silver-maned, gold-lined Publisher Field had patiently pumped his millions into his losing battle with the mighty Chicago Tribune, and the Trib had neither reformed nor weakened (in fact, the same day the Sun fired 80, the Trib gave its white-collar staff of 1,589 a blanket 20% raise). Field had many millions left, but he was tired of spending them. His ultimatum: the Sun must shine by itself...
...Dahlia (Paramount) and Her Kind of Man (Warner) are welcome throwbacks to a better, rougher day in movies. Before Hollywood had adjusted to talk without forgetting all the vivid lessons of silence, when none of the men in power had heard too much about literature, or movies as a white-collar art, and the sinister forces of Decency were still relatively quiescent, many vigorous, perceptive and entertaining movies were turned out. The best dealt with violence and skill-usually criminal-in big cities. Good examples: Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Crowd Roars...