Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANGELES MIRROR-NEWS: ONCE again the G.O.P. was portrayed as the party of the rich, the selfish and of "big business." And once again the Democratic party appeared as that of the little fellow, the workingman and of "the middle class." A reconstructed Republican party has a priceless opportunity today. For between the nether wings of both major parties, there exists a tremendous vacuum, aching to be filled...
...Kingdom of God was to him a corporate enterprise of salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell...
...principle opposition to new labor laws, are willing to help legislative committees work up proposals that they think labor can live with. In any event, honest union leaders realize that the corrupt Dave Becks and Jimmy Hoffas, snorting their contempt of public opinion, have done more to hurt the workingman's cause than any outside antilabor crusade in history. With Congress on the move, they can only hope that the pendulum of public indignation will not swing them back to the miseries of their beginnings...
...fought back in the trains, and often ambushed the Tsotsis themselves in the streets. The Zulus had a few gangsters of their own. Sometimes they made mistakes and attacked the wrong men. Soon the Zulus were embroiled with members of the Basuto tribe, which includes, besides many an honest workingman, a secret society of gangsters who call themselves "the Russians...
...months in 1957 the U.S. watched with fascination and with shock as a Senate investigating committee poked into labor's darkest corners. The faces on the television screen were scarcely those of labor leaders concerned with the betterment of the workingman. Instead, they were suety Dave Beck, president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa...