Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could borrow Will Rogers' words and describe his own status with as much accuracy as humor. Seven months after the great defeat, the Democratic Party is disorganized, in debt and leaderless. Its condition is one that John Fischer, general book editor of Harper & Bros, and a worker in Adlai Stevenson's camp last year, has diagnosed as "intellectual anemia" and "almost total collapse of the . . . organization...
...group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...
...second stage was to raise prices. This is the way it was done: the money was revalued at the rate of five old crowns for one new; henceforth, a worker who had received 5,000 crowns monthly would get only 1,000, a cut of 80%. Prices were also cut, but only 31%; this meant that real wages dropped almost...
Ever since the start of the Korean war, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been at a disadvantage. Unlike other Communist papers, such as France's L'Humanité and London's Worker, the Manhattan Worker had no staff correspondent filing regularly from the Reds' Far Eastern camps. Last week the Worker finally caught up; Correspondent Joseph Starobin, a Worker staffer for ten years and a Communist Party member for as long as anyone could recall, became the first U.S. newsman to get behind enemy lines. Joe Starobin, a U.S. citizen who went abroad more...
Married. Eunice Mary Kennedy, 31, onetime welfare worker, daughter of Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former (1938-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy; and Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 37, assistant general manager of his father-in-law's Merchandise Mart in Chicago; in a ceremony performed by Francis Cardinal Spellman; in Manhattan...