Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern, bureaucratic Great White Father to all its peoples. Government was expected not only to protect the helpless, but also to make full employment, regulate business and let labor run on a minimum of regulation. It was a doctrine that meant guaranteed security-for the farmer and the worker, and for the old and the sick. In 1948, the U.S. wanted a man who believed in that doctrine. It rejected the party-the Republican Party-which it suspected of wanting to change...
Even the girls, who used to be the mainstay of the humanities, are going in more for home economics and the newer vocational majors (recreation, social work). Meg Rothermel, the 1948 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is planning to be a social worker. Dean of Women Louise Troxell finds girls much franker and surer about what they go to college for these days: "To get a job, and a husband, and very possibly both...
Actually, say Dr. Allan and co-worker Dr. Manuel Kaufman in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
...signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young Bill the Distinguished Service Medal for the capture of "armed bandits...
...Harper's team is his wife Virginia, whom he met while she was a clerical worker at the agency, and married in 1942. She is now assistant director of McCann-Erickson's copy research department. Having no children, Mr. & Mrs. Harper sometimes stay at the office until 2 a.m., working together. Says Mrs. Harper: "I think he's quite bright...