Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the 1,000 newsmen covering the Geneva Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated...
Overtime. In New Haven, Conn., seeking a divorce, Factory Worker Carmen Nuzzo explained that he did not mind working nights to support his wife Eleanor and her five unemployed brothers, but they made so much noise during the day that he could get no sleep...
Opponents of the suffrage extension attack it on two grounds. First, they claim that people of this age are too easily influenced by their emotions, and are thus ready prey to political demagoguery. Rationality, however, does not necessarily come with age. Subjective, irrational considerations influence the white-collar worker of 30 as surely as they affect the high-school student of 18. The housewife with a son in Korea and the farmer who "distrusts foreigners" are easy targets for slick political oratory. If the voting age were lowered, high schools would place an even greater emphasis on civics and American...
...University an extensive tunnel system which houses all of Harvard's power and steam lines. The steam is bought in bulk from the Cambridge Power and Electric Light Company, crossing the river at one point underneath the floor of Week's Bridge. In the upper left photograph, a worker is making one of his periodic inspections of the tunnel along Memorial Drive near Dunster. House. Directly above, a workman is producing the sundry signs that inform the student what he may or may not do. This task is also performed at the Memorial Drive shops...
...Precinct Worker Tommy learned his politics under Baltimore's Democratic Boss Willie Curran, but at 22, in defiance of the machine, he got elected to the Maryland house of delegates. After two terms, Tommy wangled an appointment in the Internal Revenue Bureau's New York office, and named his second son Franklin Delano Roosevelt D'Alesandro (afterwards known as "Roosey"). Back in Baltimore, Tommy served a term on the city council, then ran for Congress against the machine-backed incumbent. By a 58-vote margin, Tommy...