Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Paris correspondent got his information from firsthand observation and from notable churchmen present, including two bishops and a monsignor whose reliability is beyond question. The Worker Priest topic was not on the agenda, but it was discussed in a full report made by the Archbishop of Bourges under the title "Les Grandes Orientations." This part of the archbishop's discussion will not be published officially for the same reason that the topic did not appear on the agenda...
Earl Warren, 66, appointed Chief Justice by President Eisenhower in 1953. Son of a railroad worker, raised in Bakersfield, Calif., took his law degree at the University of California (1912). He became Alameda County (Oakland) district attorney in 1925, quickly made a name as a racket-buster, was elected state attorney general in 1938, but his courtroom experience nevertheless was limited. Republican Warren was elected California's governor three times with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths...
...office last week was a jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) had broadened the liberties of all Americans. More accurately, the court had just considerably narrowed the law against the activities of Communist leaders...
...miles away from the Piessets in one of the dreariest slums of the same northern French city live wan and wasted Jeanne Derock, a local mill worker, her husband Jean-Baptiste, a wounded war veteran able to do only occasional work, and their five children, all of whom sleep in beds knocked together out of old fish crates by papa Derock...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Refueling one of the most perplexing controversies of the decade-individual liberty v. national security-the court's decisions moved the New York Daily News to suggest congressional impeachment of "one or more of the learned justices," prompted a jubilant Page One editorial in the Daily Worker, headed "A Milestone for Democracy," and blew up an eight-column editorial-page headline in the Hearst press: COMMUNISTS SCORE "GREATEST VICTORY...