Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University College, London, to enter civil service. Yet since he first won his Leeds constituency in the 1945 Labour sweep, Gaitskell has risen to a succession of high party posts, despite firm opposition from the Socialist left wing. A middle-class intellectual at the head of a party of workingmen, Gaitskell represents a new generation of Socialist leadership that is currently modifying some of the essential features of "the Cause...
...Communist newspaper L'Humanité, though hampered by the fact that most refugees were plainly workingmen, seized every chance to prove that if they could not be damned as rich reactionaries, they could at least be branded as fascists. L'Humanité delightedly front-paged a story claiming that one Frenchman had discovered an ex-Gestapo torturer among them. More purposefully, Hungarian-speaking comrades were smuggled into the camps to spread tales of alarm. They told refugees that they would get lower pay than Frenchmen in any job they were given, that if they accepted work...
...Siegfried had hoped to lecture on this topic of the future of civilization, but his schedule would not permit it. The professor, nevertheless, when free, is approachable on any subject. Those who meet him remark on his conversation which may include any topic from the Roman Catholic Church to workingmen's compensation. "In fact," noted Albert A. Mavrinac, the professor's unofficial guide, "Siegfried is interested in everything...
...until he was 35 that he felt "a spring released in my life" and he first began to write poetry. Now he looks back with pleasant reminiscence on the years as a clerk in a bones-to-charcoal factory, as British consul in Prague, as headmaster of a workingmen's school, and as head of a British education program in Czechoslovakia...
...Vandalism. The procession in the cathedral actually took place two days after Corpus Christi Day. Because Perón had cut that feast day from the list of national holidays, the archdiocese of Buenos Aires postponed the traditional Corpus Christi procession from Thursday to Saturday so that more workingmen could attend. In an attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed after...