Word: white-collar
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Meantime, Rumania grew up with its King. The peasants got their land, a prosperous and not too honest business class arose, new schools began to turn out young white-collar workers and these beat a path to get on the bureaucratic payroll of a vast collection of big and little political bosses. Then world depression began to crack down on easy money and easy virtue-then came Hitler...
...Among German Army officers the problem of accepting the Bolsheviks as allies has been less difficult than it has either for veteran Nazis or for the shopkeeping and white-collar middle class of Germany. . . . Older officers of the Prussian vintage have favored a Russian alliance for 20 years and they are reported to be worried only over the price-in Poland, in the Baltic Sea and possibly in the Balkans-which Hitler...
...N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...
...stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...
...longer than Hitler has had his eye on Poland, and in much the same way, the potent, aggressive stagehands' union (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes) has had its eye on the plushy performers' unions (allied in the Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came...