Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics...
Cheap Demagoguery. Aguirre Cámara pulled no punches. Damning the Government as totalitarian, he predicted that it would lead Argentina into inflation and militarism. Blasting powerful Vice President Juan Domingo Perón, he deflated his "love of the workingman" as demagoguery...
...poverty, no slums, no violent strikes; the grapple and grab of business shocked the young couple into questions. In Chicago, with Clarence Darrow and Eugene Debs, they sought answers at the famed forum of Jane Addams' Hull House. In London they continued the quest, helped set up a workingman's college (Ruskin) at Oxford. Later, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said: "If Charles Beard had stayed in England, he would have been a member of my Cabinet...
...confusion among the nation's coal miners that vindictive politico Lewis has been waging for many months. Then confronted with rising living costs and a Little Steel Formula, which prevents an adjustment, they have reluctantly concluded that what this country needs is a damn big strike to give the workingman a break...
...Australia the people are agreed on the main thing they want after the war: a home of their own. They want a "fair and square go" for the workingman, liberty, jobs, and freedom of movement. Looking backwards on life in the dripping jungle of Buna, on days in the yellow kunai grass and slimy swamps, on Japs crouching in jungle-covered nests, on death in the rivers, in the trees, in the air, in Jap bunkers, a soldier could say, "That's all I want out of this -a home and a wife and kids and all the rest...