Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil war. Stalin, in charge of the defense of Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad), kept up a running feud with Trotsky and carried the war, against orders, into his native Georgia. In these violent days, he was married a second time, to Nadezhda Allilueva. the pretty daughter of the Petrograd worker in whose house he had once been arrested...
...against the war and the militarists. He is no deity and doesn't want to be. He even likes the idea of Japan as a democracy. But he is also, perhaps more than any man alive, the creature of centuries of rigid tradition. So when a factory worker tried to shake Hirohito's hand during one of his democratic postwar tours, the Emperor said: "Let's do it the Japanese way"-and they exchanged bows...
Price also went to work on the production workers at the bottom. He sought to give them more identity with the company. He wrote letters inviting them to buy Westinghouse stock, offering it at $5 under the market (44⅜ last week). In five years, 28,000 workers have bought $29 million worth of stock-a total of 660,000 shares -and some of the worker-owners show up at the annual meeting and don't hesitate to offer their ideas. Price encouraged the unions to join him in looking for ways both could work together for their mutual...
...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...
Died. Mrs. Susan Homans Woodruff, 83, last of a trio of elderly female angels of the Communist Daily Worker; in Manhattan. Onetime Schoolmarm Woodruff, a Smith College graduate and a D.A.R., joined Anna Whitaker Pennypacker (daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) and Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed (daughter of a Cambridge, Mass, physician) in providing the Worker with an early-American front after 1940. She once explained why Representative Martin Dies had never called her to testify before his Un-American Activities Committee: "The public would certainly make fun of him for bothering three old ladies...