Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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UNRRA now has some 3,200 employes, 1,900 in the field, 1,300 in Washington and London offices. But not even UNRRA's staunchest defenders claim that its personnel is anywhere near competent. Average salary for a field worker is $3,600. Starting late in the hiring field, UNRRA found most capable men already in the Army or in better-paying Government or private jobs. What UNRRA got, in general, were culls, drifters through Government hiring halls, and plain incompetents...
...summoned correspondents and announced the appointment. The new Ambassador, who had been mentioned as a willing and anxious possibility for various Cabinet posts (Treasury, Commerce, Interior), slipped into his diplomatic role with a pronouncement that he would be no "soft-peace man." Isador Lubin, an experienced behind-the-scenes worker, said nothing...
...letter man: football, crew). As an independent, he battled the big oil companies for a time on production allotments and in price wars, managed to make himself a sizable business. In 1932, he set off on a flyer in politics, by 1936 was an active and aggressive Democratic party worker...
...German Foreign Office worker was captured on the western front last week by the U.S. First Army. He was talkative: "There will be no capitulation-you will have to occupy every town in Germany. You can't imagine or understand the Ger man people. They are living in a completely different world, one of heroism and romanticism. The fact that they have no manufacturing centers remaining doesn't make any difference to them...
...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...