Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facile speaker and hard worker,with a keenly analytical mind, Steinhardt likes to keep his finger on every last detail. He will have it easier in Ottawa. But his service in Ottawa might be brief. Should a Republican Administration take over next January, Steinhardt would follow tradition and offer his resignation. As a good Democrat he could be pretty sure that it would be accepted...
...week's end, the Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
Tomorrow Will Be Better is the story of Margy Shannon of Maujer Street, the plainly dressed, neatly combed daughter of a factory worker, of her loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...
...Communist Daily Worker was admitted and reported all that the faithful were entitled to hear...
...survey of finance companies, the weekly Automotive News found that many thought the industry was beginning to price itself out of the market. Associates Discount Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...