Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converted Communist was the managing editor of Communism's U.S. mouthpiece, the Daily Worker. Louis Francis Budenz, 54, ten years after becoming a Communist, announced that he had rejoined the Roman Catholic "faith of his fathers." He forthwith attended the baptism and confirmation of his ex-Unitarian wife and his three children, and was off to Notre Dame to be assistant professor of economics. As a teacher he hopes to "show up Communism in theory and practice." Said Budenz: "Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion...
There were strains and irritations in their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...
...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
...Soviet reporter is free because no exterior opinions can influence him. The Soviet journalist is an official worker. He gets wages for his work, but he does not work for money. . . . Abroad the journalist's profession is a career. With us it is a combat post...
Opulent Age. When World War I ended, every U.S. war worker who could afford to, invested his wages in a silk shirt with peppermint candy stripes. The shirt was a gonfalon of the future. Prosperity was just around the corner...