Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had never been anyone quite like him in U.S. history-the tall, gaunt youth from the Middle West, the harness maker's son who rose to be the second most powerful man in the land. He began as a social worker, but he was always more than that: a politician, a finagler, something of a playboy and something of an intellectual, a man who moved with equal ease in the circles of the rich and the tenements of lower Manhattan. In 1928, he met the man who gave his life direction...
When Ernie Bevin told off Andrei Vishinsky at UNO last week, and sat down, almost the whole London press stood up to cheer. The lone exception was the Communist Daily Worker...
...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
...worker striking illegally will be fined $3 a day and will lose one year's seniority for each week he refuses to work...
Back in the '20s, he mushed off on North Pole expeditions (he is called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...