Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew of 450 pollsters moved into the three Henry J. Kaiser-operated shipyards in the Portland (Ore.) area. In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...
Inconspicuously in the letter column of the New York World-Telegram appeared last week a letter from Red Cross recreation worker Ethel Gross Hopkins.*She had sent carbon copies to many a newspaper. The letter...
This comparative enthusiasm did not mean that Willkie had suddenly captured the Northwest. Many a G.O.P. worker grumbled about Willkie's endorsement of the Federal ballot for soldiers: Was this not another "me too" manifestation? Then there was his New York tax speech: Did that mean that he wanted to go twice as far as the New Deal...
Died. Margaret Woodrow Wilson, 57, eldest of the late President's three daughters; of uremia; in Pondicherry, India. The image of her father, in early years, Miss Wilson was a concert singer, welfare worker; in 1939 she became absorbed in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, moved to his Indian religious colony...
...behind this bill? Who is the chief sponsor of it? The chief publicist is PM, the uptown edition of the Communist Daily Worker that is being financed by the tax-escaping fortune of Marshall Field III, and the chief broadcaster for it is Walter Winchell-alias no telling what...