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...long has given a distorted picture of what actually is happening in U.S. living conditions. This week, in a monumental 253-page book. How American Buying Habits Change (U.S. Government Printing Office; $1), the BLS handsomely made amends. It summarized the upgrading in the life of the average U.S. workingman since the bureau's first survey...
...have a child by another man. Connie Chatterley falls in love with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, learns for the first time what real sex is all about. Sir Clifford, of course, is incensed at Connie's betrayal of her class. Why make love to a workingman? By this time Sir Clifford is more than half in love with his lady attendant, and the book ends with Mellors working as a farm laborer and waiting for Connie to join...
...ANGELES MIRROR-NEWS: ONCE again the G.O.P. was portrayed as the party of the rich, the selfish and of "big business." And once again the Democratic party appeared as that of the little fellow, the workingman and of "the middle class." A reconstructed Republican party has a priceless opportunity today. For between the nether wings of both major parties, there exists a tremendous vacuum, aching to be filled...
...Kingdom of God was to him a corporate enterprise of salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell...
...principle opposition to new labor laws, are willing to help legislative committees work up proposals that they think labor can live with. In any event, honest union leaders realize that the corrupt Dave Becks and Jimmy Hoffas, snorting their contempt of public opinion, have done more to hurt the workingman's cause than any outside antilabor crusade in history. With Congress on the move, they can only hope that the pendulum of public indignation will not swing them back to the miseries of their beginnings...