Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Worker ran a contest in which the person selling the most subscriptions would get a free trip to Puerto Rico, then the Red equivalent of TV's trip to Bermuda. Harvey Matusow badgered his friends to contribute to various causes (he offered a wide selection, since he was a member of 46 front organizations), and diverted the money he got into the Daily Worker contest. When he learned that he was still far behind in the competition, he dug up $100 out of his own pocket and faked a list of new subscribers. The party proudly announced that...
...anti-Communists who want the public to believe that all anti-Communist witnesses are perjurers. Even the Baltimore Sun editorialized that the Matusow case "reminds us that stool pigeons are as a class to be despised and not to be trusted." Matusow's old contest sponsor, the Daily Worker, began serializing his recantations. The real cause of real anti-Communism had been gravely damaged by the people who believed-or pretended to believe-Harvey Matusow...
Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
Among the 750 Washington reporters who hold White House press cards, two are correspondents for the Russian official news agency, Tass, and one is a correspondent for Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Three weeks ago, to illustrate an article titled "Where Russians Can Go in the U.S.," weekly U.S. News & World Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine...
Munro's most consistent man on the court, both in scoring and rebounding, is tall (6 ft., 3 in.) Wolle. "He is a hard worker, and one of the few who don't make mistakes," Munro said...