Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical male moron, Dr. Kennedy reported in Boston last week to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, is a semiskilled worker earning between $35 and $55 a week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child...
...princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
...story of his having no dark suit spread fast. Most other Italians had only two suits themselves: one to wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
Together they launched a monthly paper, the Catholic Worker, and opened a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan's tough and dirty lower East Side, where anyone that came could be fed, clothed and sheltered as long as there was anything to share. Money would somehow be provided, they felt. When the first issue of the Worker came off the press, the editors had 92? amongst them...
With this month's issue, the Catholic Worker begins its 16th year. Old Peter Maurin, now in his 70s, is crippled and numbly dying of arteriosclerosis of the brain. But the Christian dynamite he set off is still blasting away. The Worker's circulation now totals nearly 70,000. Nine other cities besides New York have Houses of Hospitality (one of them in London). Each is staffed by workers who have dedicated themselves to voluntary poverty, pacifism, and the "14 corporal and spiritual works of mercy."* Wrote Editor Day, 50, in the Catholic Worker's anniversary issue...