Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprisingly Georgia's conservative Senator George, chairman of the Senate's Postwar Committee, substantially agreed. Said he: "What we have tried to do in our agricultural and tax legislation is quite capable of application to the worker. . . . I think we ought to lean toward something like the annual-wage idea...
...Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Company set up a "52-pay-checks-each-year" plan at small expense. It has been handsomely repaid in increased worker efficiency. It now boasts that its 900 workers covered by the plan are shoe indus try's highest paid. Estimated income (excluding supervisors) last year...
...foppish. He can tell a good joke, enjoy a joke at his own expense. A widower, he has a pretty, 17-year-old daughter, Maria Inez. He likes to cook, to fish, to hunt, and to be with a charming movie star named Eva Duarte. An extremely hard worker, he admires Americans because they work hard. At home in drawing rooms, he is equally at ease with workingmen...
Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father...
First to strike was the Daily Worker, which attacked Kravchenko as a "petty traitor," a "lizard" and a "miserable weakling." Next day the Soviet Embassy itself formally repudiated Kravchenko as only one of the U.S.S.R.'s 3,000 U.S. employes, as a mere "inspector of pipes," and finally as a "deserter" from the Russian Army, who "refused to return to his motherland for military service...