Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the road to statism," proclaimed Jimmy as Washington and Lee University handed him an honorary doctor of laws degree. "Where we will wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual-whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or doctor-will soon be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state...
...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
From the very beginning, Emma made a model Scientist. She graduated from Johnson (Vt.) Normal School, taught Sunday school for the Mother Church and served as a full-time Science worker in New Hampshire. In 1898, having caught the eye of Mary Baker Eddy, she was asked to attend the last class ever taught by the founder of Christian Science...
...witness stand was Daily Worker Editor John Gates (born Saul Regenstreif), one of the eleven Communists accused of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had just asked him who were the authors of a pamphlet issued by the party's National Veterans Committee. He and others had prepared it, Gates answered. Who were the others, McGohey wanted to know. Gates flared up: "Those people work in private industry. I will not disclose their names and jeopardize their jobs...
...spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they were wasting their young lives addressing envelopes. They agreed that a dramatic gesture...