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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...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a lifelong Anglophile, recently observed: "In America, the workingman will see someone drive by in his Cadillac and he'll say, 'That guy has a Cadillac and I don't. Some day I am going to have two Cadillacs.' In Britain, the instant reaction is: 'That man has a Rolls-Royce and I don't. He is going to come down to my level...
...selection process, Meany was unwisely forfeiting his chance to persuade the Democrats to choose a candidate favorable to labor. Meany could make things worse for labor-and the Democrats-by sitting out the election campaign itself. But if the party chose someone who is friendly to the workingman, Meany could well end up mobilizing the AFL-CIO behind the Democratic candidate as of yore...
...flower garden are sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman, not a sophisticated capitalist. It's no use telling such hoarders that they ought to buy stocks. In their eyes, gold is a tried and true friend. It's part of the setting of their daily lives, like their slippers, their dogs and their dining-room tables. They wouldn...
...members of my union, then it's about time he howled," he says. "But we're not radicals just because we're tired of being sold out and passed by." Above all, Miller's voice rings with a keen and painfully won knowledge of the workingman. This knowledge, along with a plain-spoken but tough style, made the tireless Miller a formidable negotiator. As he remarked, after one sharp exchange in the last days of the bargaining: "I know. I was there in the mines. I know what it's like...