Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made it into a national slogan...
Since it is almost impossible to weave the party line into baseball and football stories, sportwriters on Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker tend to forget about the class struggle. Last week this tendency to capitalist complacency got a pair of them into trouble. In reporting the Polo Grounds row between New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher and a fan named Fred Boysen (see SPORT), the Daily Worker sport page played it straight at first. Wrote Columnist Bill Mardo: "One wants to see the respective merits of this case, and nothing else, brought out in the open and aired...
Underneath the frame flows a ribbon of paper. Every time one of the subjects says something, a social worker marks the moving paper through the proper hole...
...leadership was a plump little Italian-born U.S. labor leader named Serafino Romualdi. As the American Federation of Labor's walking delegate in Latin America, he had tirelessly gone up & down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...
...quit Manhattan in 1939 for the quiet of a small fruit ranch in Van Nuys, Calif. There, he settles himself before a drawing board every Thursday at 9 a.m. and works for 1 6 hours. At bedtime, he has almost finished five daily Blondie strips. A neat, fast worker, he rarely changes a line. Even with two assistants, it takes Young two more days to finish the first five strips, do a sixth, and turn out a Sun day Blondie page and a short Sunday strip called Colonel Potterby and the Duchess. He usually spends a couple of days swim...