Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight. Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker protégé of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target. Before the Agricultural Committee, the fight was led by Tennessee's knob-nosed, choleric Kenneth McKellar, an old Williams foe, and no holds were barred...
With a roof over his head, three meals a day, and a job, the British worker is eager to face the future. On the same terms, so is British business...
...POWER HOUSE - Alex Comfort -Viking ($3). One brooding young mill worker blows up a train and another strangles his overbearing, nymphomaniac mistress in this doggedly realistic novel of French lower-middle-class life before and during the Nazi occupation. Power ful, depressing...
...Presidency. To sound out U.S. and Hemisphere reactions to his candidacy, he gave a carefully worded interview to the Associated Press. In phrases dripping with democracy, he promised elections soon. He buttered labor, slammed "the interests": "Never again will oligarchs buy or coerce the vote of a single Argentine worker...
...sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen pictures a year, he finally got around to his first one-man Manhattan show just five years ago, when...