Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying 'democracy' too far if you punish generals for waging...
...Wherever wage rises can be granted, they are "imperative" to avoid a deep cut in the U.S. worker's take-home pay and in his purchasing power as the nation goes back to a 40-hour peacetime week...
...Price ceilings cannot be lifted to permit wage rises, for then the worker would get no real benefit and an inflationary spiral would be started...
...Navy doctor, soon to come home, wrote warning his wife rather sadly that he had gotten bald and heavy. She wrote back gently: "You will find that three years has done quite a bit to me, too." A partially paralyzed ex-defense worker gave his six-year-old daughter a doll, his nine-year-old son a pack of cards, told them to shut their eyes because more was coming, and shot them through their heads...
...Carnegie offers. The jury, imported from New York, included Juliana Force, doughty duenna of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, and two divergent painters of Manhattan life: Reginald Marsh, who paints it like a carnival barker, and Raphael Soyer, who paints it like a soft-hearted social worker. As happens with artist-dominated juries, the prizes at Chicago's Art Institute went to technically excellent paintings. Artists, who know about means, apparently care less about each others' ends...