Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, Dewey Short was not against labor, he wanted it known. He had been a worker since he was eight years old. He had sold papers, shined shoes, handled cakes of ice "bigger than I was-they slide," he declaimed. "I know what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long...
...talent. It satisfied everybody, including old Imperialist Winston Churchill, who ringingly spoke of "new harmonies." The only disappointed party was the Communists, who knew that an India out of the Commonwealth's charmed circle might fall to Asia's rising Red tide. Sputtered London's Daily Worker: "Unprincipled agreement . . . British imperialism has always proved adaptable in finding a formula which can suit its aims...
Richard M. Sandler of Mathews Hall--PBH, Brooks House Committee, Fall Blood Drive, Clothing Drive, Co-Chairman Spring Blood Drive. Jack Willis of Mathews Hall--National Scholarship Holder, Caisson Club Dance Committee. Albert J. Klingel, Jr., of Holworthy Hall --Debate Council, PBH Blood Drive Worker. Harvard Young Republican Club, Free Enterprise Society. William Holden of Thayer Hall--Freshman 150 lb. crew, Freshman track. Charles Nelson, Holworthy Hall--Freshman football, PBH social work at Cambridge Community Center, Freshman track, Natl. Scholarship holder. John G. Morey of Mower Hall--1952 Smoker Committee, Debate Council. Richard T. Button of Masachusetts Hall. Harvard Varsity...
...associations where . . . liberal views were discussed?" But a question like this one is difficult to smile at for long, when you consider that it was asked by representatives of the U.S. government (which apparently has found that "liberal views" work well at the polls) of a ship-yard worker as a test of his loyalty to the nation. Rogge's book is filled with such examples of indiscriminate and ignorant persecution of the minds and earning capacities of American men and women...
...committee begged Mrs. Clauson to attend the ball as a "hostess" along with the 25 losing contestants. They pleaded that proceeds of the ball were to establish a civilian-worker welfare fund. They took her shopping, bought her a complete new outfit and a few hours in a beauty parlor. They arranged to pick her up in a 1949 Lincoln. Mrs. Clauson relented. All over the base, signs went up: "Our Queen Eva will be there tonight-how about...