Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because "he was so different." He liked to hunt and fish, and his mechanical aptitude, ac cording to Dr. Earl G. Miller, the family physician, "bordered on genius." After one year of high school, Jack went off to Anchorage, Alaska, to stay with Helen and her husband, a construction worker. After a few months, however, he joined the Coast Guard, lying about his age (he was 16). After nine months, including 63 days AWOL, he was discharged as a minor. In January 1950, he was back in Denver. The next year he went to work for a manufacturer of trailer...
...Lopez-Conesa took office in 1946. For two years straight, a searing drought had scorched the olive groves that were the town's only means of subsistence. More than 700 families were without work or food. "One day," recalls Don Agustin, "I came across the body of a worker, dead from starvation, lying in a ditch by the roadside. That decided it for me. There were too many rich people in my town for the poor to be dying of hunger...
...evangelists produced former prisoners who testified that the services had helped them. Robert Garling, a stocky teamster-pastor (who had been in jail three times in the late 19305, for burglary), told the court how he had been won over, despite his early hostility. Charles Henderson, a maintenance worker, was also affected by the services: "One night I seen a vision . . . right on the bulkhead there in the jail." As for denying prisoners their rights, said counsel for the evangelists: "They can put their coats over their heads if they don't want to listen...
...method itself. Individual Department and Agency heads have not had the experience in dealing with loyalty investigations to make their procedures thoroughly fair and judicious. All too often, an employee is adjudged guilty until he can prove his innocence. As a result, frightened administrators often resolve doubts about a worker's character by firing...
Less than a week later, Club President Doyle received a phone call from West Springfield, Mass. Charles Helmar, a carpet factory worker and Springfield public links champion, wanted to explain that he had been Roberts' partner in the Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...