Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Katherine G. Howard, the poised and pleasant G.O.P. national committeewoman from Reading, Mass., secretary of the Republican National Committee and of the Chicago convention (whose most memorable appearance on television was the day she slipped off her shoes on the platform to ease her tired feet). A Republican worker for two decades, she came out for Ike before the convention, was in his campaign retinue from beginning to end as the only woman member on the top strategy committee...
...leader of our people" and methodically continued with a doctrinaire exposition of Marxist economic theory. In spite of my attempts to interrupt his logic, he proved he had swallowed whole the official line. On a more practical level, he explained, "we have introduced an incentive wage for the worker. According to his production, he receives up to forty percent more pay in coupons which he must spend equally with dinars. This has increased the movement of goods and we are very happy about...
Some of Ike's legions of first voters were young men whose adult memories began not in Depression, but during World War II. Said a young C.I.O. worker, as he tried to explain the election to C.I.O.-P.A.C. Boss Dan Bodell in St. Joseph County, Indiana: "You stood in bread lines but we stood in chow lines...
...same factor that plagued Boston Democrats, the Reds-in-government issue operating on people highly sensitive to the problem of Communism in general. Cities with heavy Catholic vote of cities like say, Los Angeles, where exacerbation of subversion is now a ghastly vogue, offered problems to Stevenson worker's that Philadelphia...
Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last...