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...this slanging had changed any votes was highly questionable. What clearly had swung the election to the Tories, as able Young Tory Labor Minister Iain Macleod had shrewdly predicted, was the growing stake in society possessed by Britain's "new men of property"-car-owning, house-owning young workingmen whose fathers had never been able to save a shilling but who themselves were apt to have a comfortable nest egg in the local Building Society...
Conscientious Labor Secretary James Mitchell works hard at trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages...
Long Life & Grace. Curley would have taken the funeral Mass too, with his own Jesuit son. Father Francis, as celebrant and the Archbishop of Boston in the sanctuary. Packing the pews and spilling into the streets: notables and Knights of Columbus, workingmen and housewives and ward politicians, down to 79-year-old William ("Up Up") Kelly, who through so many campaigns dashed into rallies shouting: "Up, up, everybody up for the Governor," and was never fazed until the night he dashed into a deaf-mutes' rally. But one thing Curley might not have liked. In keeping with diocesan practice...
...been divided-the Africans from the mainland, and the other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years at sea carried him to most of the world's ports, including the U.S., Karume eventually rose to quartermaster and then settled down to run a syndicate of motorboats in Zanzibar...
...grown even worse. Against him now are most of the 1,798,000 people who live in Netherlands-size Oriente province and its capital, Santiago de Cuba. Santiago professional men shelter Castro's couriers in their homes, support the rebels by buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully loosed a pack of mongrels on the streets, each wearing a Castro arm band on a front...