Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exulted New York Unionist Peter J. McGuire, who originated the idea of Labor Day in 1894 on the joyous occasion of the first U.S. legal holiday honoring the workingman. During the next six decades, U.S. labor grew mighty beyond Carpenter McGuire's wildest dreams. But this week there is little reason to shout hosannas. Instead, at the time of Labor Day, 1957, organized labor is disturbed by its recent past, perplexed by its present, taking anxious stock of its future...
Your cover story on Khrushchev [July 22] was fine. The article, translated into workingman's Russian, should be showered on Russia in leaflets...
...only founding father to sign four historic documents of American independence: the Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution. Earl sat the awkward, clearheaded patriot in a Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could...
...spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because of the name Tennessee Ernie. He is handsome enough and his low, masculine bass voice gives him sex appeal to women, but he is not good-looking enough for men to resent. Ernie himself is right from the workingman. They love and understand him. Let's face it, he's got mass appeal." Ford works an eleven-hour work day on his five daytime shows (soon to be dropped by him) and single night entry without getting ruffled. "The only one around here who has an ulcer...
...Guard brand of conservatism. "I'm convinced that the American mind is a conservative mind," says Arizona's Goldwater, who has suddenly arrived (after his major Senate speech denouncing Eisenhower Republicanism-TIME, April 22) as the Old Guard's most articulate spokesman. "The workingman is the new capitalist. Conservatives are going to win the next election, and the group which wins the 1958 elections will control the 1960 elections...