Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscle Building. A round-the-clock worker, Spyros sometimes, puts in as many as 20 hours a day in his paneled Manhattan office. To keep in shape he exercises in the morning with company underlings in his private office gym, talks over business while being rubbed down. On weekends he fills his home at Mamaroneck, N.Y. with people, treats his guests to movies in his private theater. The shortest private Skouras show on record: two full-length features and eight shorts...
...Governor, whose own slate won the Republican primary by 5-to-1 majorities, had no ax to grind. The facts were enough. In industrial New Jersey, where even the busiest war worker could find some time to vote during the 13-hour poll day, they straggled into the polls at the rate of six an hour. Nowhere except in Frank Hague's well-regimented Hudson County did the vote exceed 15% of the registration, either Democratic or Republican...
Kenneth found his new start in two small rooms in the Masonic Building: Grand Haven's "guidance center." In full possession of the center was a counselor, Dorothy Meeker Holmes, wife of a school superintendent, mother of two, clubwoman, civic worker. Counselor Holmes pondered the problem of Kenneth: how was he to get an education (preferably for a business or teaching career) which would make it unnecessary for a man with less than two lungs to return to a factory...
Ivar Kreuger, who shot himself in his Paris apartment twelve years ago, was second to no man in his ability to parlay a bunch of match companies into an international stockmarket bubble. But Fairburn, a slower, solider worker, was the man who could almost always beat Kreuger at the match game-at least in the U.S. market, which is all that Mr. Fairburn ever cared much about. In sundry Kreuger forays into Diamond's bailiwick, Fairburn had a way of selling him U.S. match interests at a fancy price, but ending up with Diamond still in the saddle...
Vigorous Ethel Alpenfels, 30, is the Denver-born daughter of a German baron, a schoolmate of the late great Marshal von" Hindenburg. She took her A.B. at the University of Washington, is now studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has been a volunteer social worker in Judge Ben Lindsey's once-famed Denver juvenile court, a schoolteacher and Y.W.C.A. camp worker. At the University of Washington she took anthropology as a snap course to make up lost credits, found herself a career...