Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past. Roy Roberts left the Star building before midnight, piled himself into the front seat of his 1946 Pontiac. Harvey Anderson, his Negro chauffeur-handyman, was waiting to pick him up. Roberts, who has a nickname for everybody, calls Anderson "the Senator" because he is a precinct-worker for the good deeders...
From Manhattan, A. B. Magil of the Communist Daily Worker pressed the point deeper. He had applied for a passport to visit Palestine, and the State Department had turned him down (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Magil fired a cable to Geneva, asked the U.S. delegation if it really meant what it said...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...
Chief among the politicians invited was Kim Koo, Rightist chairman of the Korean Independence Party. Few party-liners were prepared for this proposed alliance. On the day the Communists issued their invitation, Manhattan's Daily Worker referred to Kim as "the notorious old terrorist Kim Koo [who is without] any following among the people...
...plot of "Touch of the Times" stems from a factory worker's loss of his girl to a fellow worker. He seeks solace in flying a kite and remains apart. Soon the other factory workers follow suit, and everyone is flying kites. When the factory issues on edict against kite-flying, everyone goes back to his job except the hero, who just continues flying his kite and is immensely happy...