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Each year since 1948 the Winant Volunteers have sent over a carefully chosen group of college and preparatory school students to help with the work of boys' clubs in the East End of London. A workingman's family in the East End exists on a fraction of the amount spent by a comparable group in the United States; and in this area living conditions as still austere as well as crowded. The people are therefore a favorite target for demagoguery of the hate-America type; and the East Ender's memory of the bitz is not overlooked by politicians with...
...Associated Press did not put it on the wire for some eight hours, and the New York Times buried it at the bottom of a story. It took the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther to discover that Charlie Wilson had delivered an insult without parallel to the American workingman...
...much Laughton leaves the audience feeling that there has been too little Brenda de Banzie and John Mills, who are excellent as the spinster and her workingman suitor...
...four-year term). Under his administration the city built a hospital and a community center, extended water and sewers, to all residents, improved streets and sidewalks, without going into debt. In 1951 he won a second term without campaigning. A shirt-sleeve executive, Millsop lives in the workingman's neighborhood: his office door is open to any steelworker. He takes over as National's president from crusty, autocratic George R. Fink, 67, who founded Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp., now a National subsidiary. Board Chairman Ernest T. Weir, 78, one of National's founders, continues...
President Eisenhower's recommendations on labor law, which went to Congress this week, were cut out of the same cloth as his State of the Union message. He recognized that the Wagner Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities" in 1935, was necessary to protect the workingman. He noted that the Taft-Hartley Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities"*i n 1947, was necessary to cope with the new power of unions. Taft-Hartley is sound legislation, Eisenhower said, but experience gained under it "indicates that changes can be made to reinforce its basic objectives...