Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unite these elements Ben-Gurion called for "tremendous educational effort, superhuman patience and boundless love." Within a day's walk of Tel Aviv's neon lights are villages where babies are still painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state...
...Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post. Glaser said that he was a Communist when he worked on a copy desk of the Times, which he quit in 1934 to become managing editor of the Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party and the paper, and to stop being "a lunkhead," "chump" and "poor, miserable, tragic fool." A completely cooperative...
...James Aronson, 40, executive editor of the National Guardian, who worked for the Times in 1946-48. ¶ Richard 0. Boyer, 52, free lancer who has contributed profiles to The New Yorker and also written for the Daily Worker. ¶ William A. Price, 35, police reporter who has worked for the New York Daily News since 1940 except for 4½ years as a wartime Navy flyer. He refused to answer questions on Communist activities-or to take the Fifth. Daily News Executive Editor Richard Clarke promptly fired Price by telegram, charging that his conduct at the hearing had "destroyed...
...managing editor of the Daily Worker in 1934 (see above), one of James Glaser's first acts was to write a brief announcement of his shift from the New York Times to the Worker. When he picked up the Worker the next day, he was "shocked" to find "a completely different story" announcing that he would write a series of inside stories about graft and corruption on the Times...
After working a five-day week on the capitalist Times, Glaser found that Worker workers were laboring six days, so he ordered a five-day week. Eisler vetoed the order. "He told me," explained Glaser, "that we couldn't delay the revolution for a day." It was Eisler who also ran the paper's editorial policy. Once the foreign editor, then Harry Cannes, turned in a story that revolution was imminent in France. "I hadn't heard of it," said Glaser, "and I asked Cannes where it came from...