Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headlined Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker: PARIS, LONDON IN UPROAR OVER EXPOSE OF U.S. ADMIRAL'S CYNICAL WAR PLAN...
During the late '205, Chambers was on the New York Daily Worker. In the city room he sat with Tom O'Flaherty, a big Irishman with "a brisk sense of humor (always a heavy cross for a Communist)," and Fred Ellis, a blue-eyed sign painter from Illinois who did the Worker cartoons when Chambers had an idea (one idea: after Teapot Dome, Andy Mellon as September Morn in a pool...
Brown Beret. Wages on the Worker were so intermittent, and so small, that Chambers cast about for a part-time paying job. His Columbia friend Clifton Fadiman, knowing his skill at languages, offered him a book to translate. It was Bambi, and its immediate success established him as a translator...
...Worker sent Chambers to cover a textile workers' demonstration in Passaic, N.J. The police were massed in force to keep the strikers from marching, but a slender girl rushed out before the cops could stop her. The demonstration surged after her. "Get that bitch in the brown beret!" a policeman shouted. Without flinching, she walked forward as the cops closed in, swinging their clubs. Led by the "bitch in the brown beret," the demonstrators swept right through the police. This was Chambers' first glimpse of Esther Shemitz, who since 1931 has been his wife...
McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, got an additional job this week being the secretary-field worker of a new atomic energy committee...