Word: workingman
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Sirs: Have often wondered if the common workingman who goes on strike for higher wages ever stopped to do a little common figuring...
...stiff literary standards, England's Poet Laureate is an easy man to underestimate. But the very qualities that make his work minor (and made him Laureate) -simplicity, traditionalism and sentimentality-are also his great charm. Hardly less than Rudyard Kipling, he is a workingman's poet. The same qualities make In the Mill, the story of the days when he was an intelligent young workingman, one of the most engaging of his books...
...labor have flattered the Church by calling it the great conservative force, and then called upon it to act as a police force while they paid but a pittance of wage to those who work for them. I hope that day has gone by. Our place is beside the workingman...
...other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman's dream of turning $2 into a four-door sedan...
Like the Des Moines Register in 1903, the Cowles paper in Minneapolis began as third and weakest paper in its community. In the beginning it was the Minneapolis Star, the "Workingman's Paper," bought in 1935 for $1,000,000 by John Cowles and his younger brother, Gardner Jr. ("Mike"). Under the "Cowles Formula" -crack editors, maximum wire and syndicate service, expert circulation technique -Star circulation of 78,000 grew by 1939 to 155,000. That year the Cowleses bought the Minneapolis Journal (circulation: 135,000) for $2,500,000. John Cowles, after twelve years as vice president...