Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little shifty, but it was clear as a brook compared with the secret diplomacy of Communist and Fascist States. Its finances looked troubled-but not in comparison with Germany's blocked marks and Russia's financial somersaults. Poland subsidized no agents to pose as friends of the workingman in foreign countries; except for its desperate seizure of Teschen when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, it grabbed no neighbor's property. Although vague stones in left-wing and Fascist papers long spoke of Poland's aggressive aims, Poland's history was peaceful. It was denounced as "semi...
...years ago Ralph Bates was just another energetic, down-and-out, class-conscious workingman, while Ernest Hemingway was an energetic, up-and-coming, self-conscious writing man. Today, Bates's Spanish civil war stories are better than Hemingway's. Bates lived revolution; when it came, he could almost write it with his eyes shut...
...collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...Roosevelt administration, which Sweezy sees as in effect a popular front government, with the workingman as its chief backer, is seriously concerned over the divided house of labor. If the fight runs into the 1940 campaign, the A. F. L. may force a split in the Democratic party by allying itself with conservative Democrats in opposition...
...former from "outside sources." In addition, on the Post, a $5,000-a-week budget cut was begun. Of its 142 editorial employes, twelve were fired-as were 23 of 180 Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers woo the workingman, cast about for ways to institute a pay cut on the Post, without colliding with A.F. of L. unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions...