Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shocker. Chambers gave a list of men he described as members of the apparatus. Three of them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary...
...popular vote was not so lopsided. The Liberals polled 36% to Union Rationale's 51% (13% more than in 1944). Even a Duplessis worker shook his head sadly: "Too big, too big." An anti-Duplessist summed it up more bitterly: "That guy's been driving around with a police motorcycle escort and sirens. Now I guess he'll call out the elite guard...
...June 1, when work on the script had just begun, the show received a sizzling salute from the Daily Worker: "An inaccurate, slanderous, and distorted series...
...clinic. A woman's voice quavered a bit as she answered the intimate questions. Had she ever thought about gonorrhea? "No, I had not thought about the disease very much, only in the way that one thinks about leprosy." It turned out that the patient, an unidentified office worker, did have gonorrhea...
Died. Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...