Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friend of Everyone. He went to work in a General Motors subsidiary's stock room and seven years later became vice president of G.M. in charge of industrial and public relations. U.S. Steel hired him as a front man. By the time he was 37, he was chairman of the board, making $100,000 a year, and was a friend of everyone. At the urging of Franklin Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins, big, expansive Ed went to big, expanding wartime Washington...
...four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world wars and while we were gradually reducing the work week from about 58 hours to 40 ... Anyone making such bold predictions would have been regarded as irresponsible...
...work week will be cut to 30 hours...
...looked like a dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
...servants in its employ, who have sworn loyalty to its vague sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...