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...when his grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune, he forgets his vow and falls for a wealthy, beautiful snob. Can Kipps really be such a cad? Of course not. In the end, he loses his loot and marries his lower-class true love, like the decent English workingman that everybody knew he always...
...nation's largest sales-finance company. More than anyone else, Dietz made "Buy Now, Pay Later" a U.S. byword-starting in 1919 when he set up the auto sales division of C.I.T. to finance car sales, a development that put a rich man's luxury into a workingman's budget and brought C.I.T. to a loan volume of $4.6 billion annually by his retirement...
...nation's trade deficit into a surplus practically overnight. It is not, however, a politician's panacea, since it means initially a sharp reduction in the standard of living of the devaluing nation's citizenry as manufacturers' profits decline and the cost of what a workingman buys goes...
...politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam Clayton Powell. Nor are they products of the Negro middle class such as HEW Secretary Robert Weaver and Edward Brooke, who as public personages seem so nearly white that the Negro workingman is hard put to identify with them...
Organized labor provided the crusher. Armed with some $200,000 from the A.F.L.-C.l.O., the mayor's machine turned out the workingman's vote in automated order. Workers thus repaid Tate's past deference to Philadelphia's big maritime unions (he recently rejected a bill to expand docking facilities to Camden, N.J., and Chester, Pa.) and his approval of a $40 million wage-and-retirement bill. Tate...