Word: workingmen
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...morning of Armistice Day, 1951, while workingmen and housewives gratefully caught up on their sleep, a group of students rolled their equipment into the busy, noisy West End section of Boston and began shooting a documentary...
...west boundary, has never had a reputation for being exclusive. During the roaring '20s, the Torrio-Capone mob roared through Cicero's streets in armored cars, ruled its wide-open gambling joints, honky-tonks and whorehouses. Cicero is also an industrial town, with tree-lined neighborhoods of workingmen's homes, and friendly corner taverns where jukeboxes play lively polkas and the talk at the bar is in many languages. Though its history is pockmarked with crime and violence, Cicero makes one proud boast: no Negroes live there...
...Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation's most workable law against racial discrimination, had cleaned out graft in workingmen's compensation and renovated cobwebby mental and public health programs. When it came right down to brass tacks, most New York Republicans and many Democrats hated to see Tom Dewey...
...Adams was summoned to Boston to help plead Massachusetts' case against the Stamp Act before the British governor. Three years later, on the advice of his jackanapes genius cousin, Sam Adams, who had the workingmen of Boston in his political pocket, John moved to the city. In short order he was the leading legal light in that litigious colony, and the legal brains of the native Whigs...
...Herbert Morrison, Labor's leader in the House of Commons, disagreed. If it was to go on winning elections, said Morrison, Labor must appeal to the middle class as well as to workingmen. "[Nationalization] is good enough in some businesses," remarked one of Morrison's supporters, "but in most others, why not let private enterprise get on with the job . . . so long as the state holds the strings...