Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambition, for most of the Eurasian girls at Cambodia's Descartes Seminary, consisted mainly of the wish one day to marry a French white-collar worker, a clerk, for instance, at the Banque de I'Indochine. But slim, delicate, bronzed Monique Izzi, daughter of a half-French, half-Italian father and a Cambodian mother, had quite another idea. Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European. A fragile and lovely center of interest in a bikini bathing suit by the pool at Le Cercle Sportif, Monique gave...
Corporations must bargain with unions on stock purchase plans if the company contributes toward purchase of shares. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last week in a precedent-setting decision. In a case involving Richfield Oil Corp. and the C.I.O.'s International Oil Workers Union, the court upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Richfield's stock plan (jointly financed by worker and company contributions) was in effect a wage increase, thus a bargaining matter. Richfield, which will appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the ruling "permits the union...
...Communists jumped into the fray. "The ignoble . . . theoretician of the policy of strength," Moscow Radio called Dulles. Peking Radio hurled a Chinese proverb at him: "A man who has had his face slapped into a bloated shape can only pretend he has gained weight." Headlined the U.S. Daily Worker: DULLES...
Glaser found the Worker as inefficient as it was journalistically dishonest. Once he asked a copyboy for a cut of William Green, the late A.F.L. leader. After much searching, the cut was found filed under "P"-for "prominent labor fakers...
...Worker always liked to accommodate its friends. Once a woman representing a Communist front came in to demand a front-page story on a money-raising women's bazaar-and with a banner headline, too. In his simple bourgeois way, Managing Editor Glaser scoffed: "You can't have an eight-column line on a bazaar." But, after Eisler intervened, that was just how the story...