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During World War II, tall, stringy J. D. Shelley made good money as a construction worker. His wife Ethel Lee had a job as a maid. Like many other Negro families, the Shelleys scraped and pinched to get every possible nickel into the bank. They had six children. They lived in a savage St. Louis slum, and they ached for quiet, decency and a home of their...
According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union...
...list of signers included such perennial prophets of the Communist faith as Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast and a whole bevy of Daily Worker staffers: ex-New Masses Editor Joseph North, his onetime Executive Editor A. B. Magil, Ben Field. It included at least one former Communist Party official: V. J. Jerome (real name: Isaac Romain...
...General Hoyt Vandenberg, new Air Force chief of staff. Educated: Grand Rapids grade and high schools, one year at the University of Michigan (1901-02). Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died in 1916; in 1918 to Hazel H. Whitaker, a Fort Wayne schoolteacher, social worker and newspaperwoman. Children (by his first wife): Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., 40, a bachelor and his father's longtime secretary; Mrs. John Bailey, 38, of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Edward Pfeiffer, 36, of Huntington, N.Y. Church: Congregational. Nicknames: Van (to his friends), Pops (to his wife...
Then Sneath switched. He wrote to the London Daily Worker: "I am endeavoring to institute the compulsory study of Russian in this school, but have been met with every form of obstruction . . ." Somberly, the Worker published the letter as an example of growing anti-Soviet feeling. London's less credulous News Review checked up, found that there was no Selhurst School, never had been. H. Rochester Sneath turned out to be two Cambridge undergraduates who had invested $1.60 in letterheads to perpetrate the best hoax of the spring...