Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would never have done what Harry Truman did. They were right. True, Franklin Roosevelt, only three years before, had asked Congress for exactly the same power.* And twice-in 1944 and again in 1945-Franklin Roosevelt had called for a national service law which would have made every U.S. worker subject to Government discipline. In his 1944 proposal, F.D.R. had specified to Congress that he wanted a measure "which . . . will prevent strikes...
Thanks to Antonio, the Costas may soon be able to move to roomier quarters. Meanwhile the hubbub has become too much for Papa Costa, a glass worker. Recently Papa took to disappearing mysteriously. One night Mama Costa blindfolded Antonio and pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
...biggest drawing card in French sports is a Moroccan soccer player named Larbi Ben Barek. He belongs to the soccer union and thus gets $20 a week and a $16 bonus for each game the team wins. His father was a shipyard worker in Casablanca, and he learned to play soccer bare foot on a Moroccan desert. A Mohammedan, he frequently bows his head to ward Mecca after scoring a goal...
...little Japanese Presbyterian with a broad smile and bad eyesight toured the U.S. in 1936, speaking to packed halls on Christianity and consumer cooperatives. For the hundreds of thousands who heard him, Toyohiko Kagawa sounded like a saintly social worker and symbolized the best of Christianized Nippon...
This week U.S. Homes turned out its first unit, a two-bedroom house that retails for $6,500. It was immediately sold to Stockholder William Thomas Moore, a worker in the erection department...