Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...
...novel feature of the exhibit is a collection of propaganda posters, which are being used in Russia to encourage workingmen to produce more, educate themselves, and improve the public health. There is also a group of pamphlets describing present travel conditions in Russia...
Hamburg is a seaport 75 miles from the sea. Altona is to Hamburg as Camden is to Philadelphia, a swarming, separately administered suburb on the River (Elbe). In Altona are workingmen's flats, deserted factories, ramshackle athletic clubs, empty lots cut up into thousands of little gardens each with a tool shed, many with a flagpole and a red Communist flag. Late last Sunday afternoon good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined...
...Byoir made known his and Editor Dickinson's plan to the Association of National Advertisers. From then on there was no stopping the snowball. The American Legion, with an organization of 10,600 posts throughout the land, and the American Federation of Labor, representing the country's workingmen, were maneuvered into giving the plan their support. Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel donated office space for national headquarters. A national organization sprang into life with one purpose in view, namely, to tell every employer that if he and 999,999 other employers would make one extra job available...