Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after four years as the sly, tireless head of the Communist-run German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor...
...World War II, Field served briefly with the OSS as liaison officer between the U.S. and the Communist undergrounds in Western Europe. When peace came, Field turned up as a relief worker, handling Eastern European refugees for the Unitarian Service .Committee...
...Noel Field, ostensibly bound for Prague, left his wife in Switzerland and disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
...Budget. President Estimé, gambling about a fourth of his government's revenues on the chance of winning tourist dollars, seemed satisfied with Schmiedigen's creation. The 1,500 workers, singing as they hammered, spoke of it affectionately as "ti exposition pa'nous" (our little fair). The impresario, a veteran of world's fairs in Paris (1938) and New York (1939), was pleased too. "But," he said, "I've given up hoping that a Haitian worker will ever learn to feel when a line is parallel to another line...
Under Senate and House rules, which permitted only correspondents of dailies in the press galleries, the new press association was barred at first. (Federated Press had a place in the galleries because it serviced one daily client-the Communist Daily Worker.) But the Standing Committee of Correspondents has since changed its rules, made the new agency welcome...