Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maine, the Guy Gannett newspapers carried a story from their Washington correspondent which the Portland Press Herald bannered: BOGGED-DOWN IKE COULD LOSE ELECTION THIS WEEK. Here & there, individual enthusiasm for Ike was giving way to nervousness. An Eisenhower worker in Chicago reflected the general reaction. "People are willing to wait for General Eisenhower to take a firm stand," said she, "but not much longer. We've lost some independents to Stevenson already...
...creative impulse . . . in the field of human relations," i.e., Communism. In 1934, she went to the U.S.S.R. "to see firsthand the Russians' new way of living." Three years later, she made a visit to embattled Loyalist Spain, where she discovered that when she looked at a Spanish worker or peasant, "we could both know that we spoke the universal language of truth...
...year ago, before General Thorpe was nominated, the Daily Worker picked up a speech he had made before the Rhode Island Turkey Growers and Poultry Growers Association. The Worker distorted the speech to make it sound as if he were supporting the Communist party line on the Far East. Agents of the Army's Counter-intelligence Corps (which Thorpe himself helped organize in the Pacific) descended on his home town of Westerly, R.I., a small community where gossip spreads fast. The agents questioned Thorpe's neighbors and friends about his loyalty. The agents based the questions...
Married. Robert L. Smith, 21, first quadruple amputee of the Korean war; and Barbara Borm, 17, a volunteer worker he met when she visited the Army's Walter Reed Hospital; in Washington. In November 1956 Smith lay wounded in a ditch for three days; by the time he was rescued his hands and legs were so badly frozen they had to be amputated...
...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...