Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal worker in the Seattle Crusade ... I rather question the phrase, "In fits of depression" he "reproaches himself . . . for vainglory." In most instances, human beings are more apt to pride themselves in moments of exultation and joy of success. I believe his reproaching of himself is continual since he realizes, humbly, his insignificance in the sight...
...Treasurer of the United States: Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, 47, of Bountiful, Utah, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, a Republican party worker since she was enrolled as a baby sitter at the age of 10. Ike's second Mormon appointee (the first: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson), she has always managed the family budget for her husband (a wholesale furniture dealer) and three children, proudly boasts that "my checkbook always balances." As Treasurer her main job will be to do the same for the Treasury's accounts and to sign her name...
American Negroes still were worse off than white citizens, but they were getting a better break than ever before. In 1950 the Negro wage and salary worker earned an average of $1,300, or 52% of the average for white workers. In 1939 the Negro earned only $400, less than 40% of the white average...
...rugged individualist exercising my American rights." He won. Re-elected in 1950 by 162,410 votes, he is now considered the strongest political figure in Oregon. As governor, he won a reputation as an excellent administrator, though not as an innovator. McKay is a veteran worker in conservation (he sponsored the nation's biggest forest reclamation project) and power development. Long an advocate of collaboration between states and Washington, D.C. on conservation and power, he favors regional projects, opposes the super, Fair-Deal-proposed Columbia Valley Administration because, unlike Tennessee, "the Columbia Basin is not a wornout valley where...
...incidental benefit to the Communists of the hue & cry over the Rosenbergs: it diverts attention from their own attacks on the Jews in Czechoslovakia, which the New York Daily Worker had yet to tell its readers about...