Word: white-collar
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FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
...line between the white-collar class and the no-collar class began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...irrigated the sugar-cane fields, had children who were U. S. citizens. The second and third generation of field workers, after much free schooling, refused to live and do as their forebears. So the importation of labor went on and Depression caught the islands with a far larger white-collar population than an agricultural land can easily support...
Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital announced that beginning next autumn it would insure white-collar workers three weeks' hospitalization a year for a $10 premium. At Flint the House of Delegates of Michigan's State Medical Association voted to set up a Mutual Health Service which, at a probable cost of about $27 a year per person, will insure full medical care to families earning less than $1,500 a year. People who want a concrete idea of what group medicine can become could look last week to Tacoma, Wash. Tacoma's Dr. Albert Wellington Bridge...
...victim, Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips rung by rung. Three newspaper clippings...