Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interest-like that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school...
...Committee asserts; he may be completely free of any such connection; as phases of the Landis Deportation hearing seem to indicate. He may favor violent revolution, as the Hearst Press noisily proclaims; he may be a peaceful and law-abiding individual, interested only in furthering the welfare of the workingmen of this country, as the Labor Press declares. Such questions can be answered only by a far more thorough investigation than has yet been carried...
...When workingmen combine...
Tonight at our weekly union meeting a motion was made commending Senator B. K. Wheeler for his stand on convoys and the drift toward war. It was passed by a large majority. The men who passed it are Americans born, or naturalized. Not Reds, Blacks, or Browns, just plain workingmen...
...oxen, with the yoke around our necks-dreading to be led to a second slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save our car from destruction, risking their necks on the slippery slope where, at any time, the car might have rolled over on them. Their work triumphantly finished, they refused to accept payment. "We do not take money from Red Cross workers, from Americans," their spokesman said...