Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokane Spokesman-Review in the copyright permission footnote, handed the story in to the copy desk 24 hours late and fled. Several days later an office boy brought to her desk a prime example of the perils of inaccuracy. It was a clipping from Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, which had picked up TIME'S Radio story, complete with King's verse. There was no acknowledgement of copyright permission. Further, the Worker had made one of journalism's most painful errors : it had disinterred Stoddard King - identifying him as the "daily bard of the Spokane (Wash...
...York Daily News, from pacifists like the National Council for Prevention of War, from Russophiles like Senator Claude Pepper, from liberals like Fiorello LaGuardia, who would feed the starving of Greece but leave Greece's Communist troubles to U.N. It came from such Red outposts as the Daily Worker and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. But for all its vehemence it was scattered. No one man had yet sounded the cry around which all factions could rally...
...with so little talent as Indiana-born Theodore Dreiser. His famous novels (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) laid bare the seamy side of life with a bumbling crudity and literary formlessness that often alienated critics and readers alike. But he had the sincerity of a dedicated social worker and the naive, sentimental garrulousness of a kindly, troubled country neighbor. They brought him an audience and a place in U.S. literary history...
...worker in the steaming jungles of eastern Ecuador, Shell's withdrawal would mean the end of jobs well-paid by Ecuadorian standards. Roughly $1,500,000 in salaries have gone to native employees annually; the national budget amounts to only $20,000,000 a year. To the importer in Ecuador it would mean the loss of at least 10% of the country's already scarce dollar exchange. To Ecuador as a whole it would mean the end of a cherished dream...
...famed Lord Horder, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who offered the most ambitious description of a doctor's mission. Medicine, said he, must write the prescription for a healthy state,* and "guide the politicians. ... It is the doctor's duty to protect the worker against excess fatigue, against dullness and against the various hazards of his job. . . . The doctor's work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit fit." Famed...