Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis, also President of the Daily Worker, devoted most of his speech to a discussion of a bill recently introduced by the Thomas Un-American Committee into Congress. This measure would require members of Communist "front" and political organizations to swear their allegiance to this nation, or else suffer heavy fines and imprisonment...
...library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures (fee: $600 to $1,000), earned more than...
Scattered across the country are 49,000 "Citizens for Stassen" who get a steady stream of bulletins. Each new member is urged to get five additional members. After the Wisconsin primary, every worker got a personal letter thanking him and concluding: "Now sit down and write to your friends in Nebraska and Ohio." Senator Ed Thye, a farmer, wrote to 20,000 Nebraska farmers. Athletes are asked to write to athletes, veterans to veterans, even optometrists to optometrists...
...Near Atlanta, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen tied a young construction worker named Joseph Berry to a tree, flogged him with a leather strap until blood vessels burst...
...knew how to make the most of the situation. The rapidity with which the disorders spread through Bogotá and then to other Colombian cities certainly indicated skilled direction, if not considerable planning. And the result suited the party, right down to the ground. Said the New York Daily Worker: "Interruption of the Foreign Ministers' parley is a sock in the jaw to the Big Business men of the State Department...