Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split among the 298 unelected "delegates"-at least 50 of them past or present defendants under the Smith Act-was wide. An insurgent group, headed by Daily Worker Editor John G. Gates, had savagely criticized Soviet conduct in Hungary, loudly proclaimed its desire to change the U.S. party into a "political action or education association"-a course by which, argued Editor Gates, U.S. Communism could win "independence" from Moscow, thus permit it to end its "isolation" from other U.S. "mass movements...
...past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan, the Negro field worker, is still loyal, but one of his sons has turned "uppity" and fled north to Harlem...
...illuminate Annie's redoubtable spirit, The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson, focused only on the first few weeks of her life at the Kellers' home in 1887. Helen was not far from being a willful little animal because no way had been found to bring her into meaningful association with others. As Helen, eleven-year-old Patty McCormack brought to the play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused...
...celebrate Inventors' Night for 104 employees who had won patents for new processes. In the same way, hundreds of other companies have set up their own brainstorm sessions for plant personnel, modified the idea for their own use. B. F. Goodrich Co., for example, likes to use nontechnical workers to help solve tough engineering problems. At its first "creative workshop" session eight months ago, a white-collar office worker sparked the answer to the problem of how to design a new tire machine; he had attacked the problem without any preconceived technical notion that it was impossible. Motorola...
...president of the 63-year-old shoe company, succeeding his cousin. Charles F. Johnson Jr., 69, who became chairman of the board. Frank Johnson, grandson of the firm's founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer in the low-and medium-priced fields (first: International Shoe...