Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comradely service to its readers, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker last week swiped an idea from the class enemy and for once gave him credit for it. The Worker "noticed" that a "firm of 'liberals' " had offered industrialists advice on "how to detect Communists in industry." Columnist Ted Tinsley submitted his own tips on "How to Detect Capitalists in Your Industry...
Whoosh! In Vlaardingen, Holland, a chemical worker snitched a likely looking piece of filter cloth (which happened to contain a good deal of guncotton), made himself a pair of pants, then rashly struck a match on them...
...bille is one of those unusual men who can scratch his right ear with the middle ringer left hand held behind his back (see cut). In general, his life has been unusual. He has been an errand boy, a bellhop, an elevator operator, a metal worker, a mechanic, an artilleryman. In Venice and Brussels he was a gigolo. In Fezzan he trafficked in arms. During this time, Sébille escaped two attempts on his life and took part in three major riots. Hit by German shrapnel at Rethel in 1940, Sébille was taken prisoner. Later...
...scholarly achievements were recognized by Olivet College, Michigan, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1927. But he was an ardent field worker and it is reported that he was "never happier than when he was collecting in the tropics...
...between the shiny black bars, their eyes all agoggle at the lush greenery of the yard within. Many is the discouraged student who finally recrosses Massachusetts Avenue, to wile away the hours in Felix's, and later is found run over behind. Widener with a copy of the Daily worker in his already cold hand. True, a few shrewder individuals have been able to crash through to the inner regions, but it has only been after untold waiting and hair-breadth escapes from the rock-laden trucks that tear through Widener Gate to dump their loads elsewhere and race back...