Word: workingman
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...fought back in the trains, and often ambushed the Tsotsis themselves in the streets. The Zulus had a few gangsters of their own. Sometimes they made mistakes and attacked the wrong men. Soon the Zulus were embroiled with members of the Basuto tribe, which includes, besides many an honest workingman, a secret society of gangsters who call themselves "the Russians...
...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...
...months in 1957 the U.S. watched with fascination and with shock as a Senate investigating committee poked into labor's darkest corners. The faces on the television screen were scarcely those of labor leaders concerned with the betterment of the workingman. Instead, they were suety Dave Beck, president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa...
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...