Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the army's abortive revolt in September 1951, the country has been, by presidential decree, in a "state of internal war." While this does not affect the ordinary businessman or worker who keeps his mouth shut, it has a very real meaning for people suspected of being enemies of Perón. It means that the police may legally arrest any resident of Argentina and hold him indefinitely, without ever bringing any charge against him. (There are now an estimated 80,000 cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large...
...relations, who told the Jenner subcommittee that he is not now a member of the Communist Party, but refused to say whether he ever had been one. After investigating Kamin for itself, Harvard found that he joined the party while still a student in 1945, wrote for the Daily Worker under the name Leo Soft. In 1950, however, he had a change of heart, since then has had no connection-with the party. "Mr. Kamin," said the Corporation, "has not been under Communist domination since he first became a teacher...
...righteous life. But though what he had to say was not startling, he said it with such eloquence, and such a wealth of practical application, that his suburbanite parishioners were stirred and delighted. By the time World War I took him overseas as a Y.M.C.A. worker, Harry Emerson Fosdick knew how to prepare and preach a sermon that would vibrate through a congregation for days...
...weekly National Guardian (circ. 47,000), though it follows the Communist Party line almost as faithfully as the Communist Daily Worker, claims to be a "progressive weekly affiliated with no political party." Started in 1948, the Guardian parrots the Communist charges of germ warfare in Korea, consistently berates U.S. "imperialist" expansion, runs special dispatches from Communist correspondents in North Korea, and has even printed a list of prisoners of war in Korea (TIME, May 21, 1951) that was available only to the world Communist press...
...member of the storefront church labored harder than Deacon Grimes. In the South he had tomcatted and boozed around until one day, at 21, he had seen the light. Now, a big, morose factory worker, he thundered God's word at his wife & children without cease. What he would not admit was that he served the Lord only by his words. He could never forgive his wife Elizabeth for having borne an illegitimate child before their marriage. And he hated the child, John, in a most un-Christian way, though the boy desperately wanted his affection...