Word: workingman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
Marxists in various corners of the globe−and possibly even some people in the U.S.−who think of the American workingman as downtrodden, etc., should have taken a look at Las Vegas last week. Even though the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is operating in the red and is raising dues for its 2.2 million members by at least 25% (to a minimum of $10 a month), the Teamsters held their 21st international convention last week far from any conceivable barricades, amid the gaudy luxuries of Las Vegas. No pikers even in hard times, the bosses pushed through...
...from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...voters are Republicans and the G.O.P. has not won a gubernatorial contest since 1873, Democrat Cliff Finch, 48, came on with the glad hand and confident smile of a winner (TIME, Nov. 3). Although he earned $150,000 last year as a lawyer, Finch campaigned as the "workingman's candidate," toting around a lunch pail and spending one day each week laboring on such blue-collar jobs as driving bulldozers and repairing automobiles...
Finch, who last year earned $150,000, has run a populist-tinged "workingman's campaign" that puts a premium on sincerity and handshaking. Since spring he has spent one day a week working at such jobs as stamping prices on groceries and driving bulldozers. Says he: "When I sit down and open up my lunch box with that man or that woman who has been working side by side with me, sweating just like me, they know that I am sincere...