Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left with the suspicion that Levy rushed the book out to aid the UFW in the crucial farm worker elections now underway in the California fields. The story of the election struggle would have been a more logical stopping point for a book about Chavez and the union since the results may determine the fate of the movement. But what's worse is that Levy has thrown five years of impressive research into a book designed to promote Chavez rather than explain...
...MIAMI: In a city with one of the country's greatest concentration of the elderly, a social worker who gave up his youth counseling job to run for mayor got very few votes in yesterday's election...
...eaves, Thelma Massey, a dining hall worker for Lowell House was among those standing and applauding...
Teaching Thucydides. The son of a social worker (his mother was one of the first women in England to earn a university degree), Toynbee studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, and he was teaching Thucydides there when the first World War broke out. Unfit for the military because of a bout of dysentery, Toynbee spent the war working in the Foreign Office, then roamed the Middle East, and eventually taught at the University of London. He thought he would write his study of history in one long summer vacation. He published the first three volumes in 1934, reached...
...swimmer, who occasionally picked up a few extra dollars by singing in church. Friends from Morris Catholic High School, from which Karen graduated in 1972, describe her as quiet, but popular with the boys. Her employer at a ceramics company in Ledgewood, N.J., where she was a production worker until she was laid off in a company cutback in August 1974, remembers her as a good, hard worker...