Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance Greene's present obsession with God and Guilt was still submerged. The rainwater in this novel is the gelid London variety; the central occurrence, around which hints of dark guilt flutter and settle like ravens, is the murder of a policeman. The murderer, a simple, solid workingman named Jim Drover, has been sentenced to hang, despite the fact that the policeman he killed had been about to club his wife in a scuffle at a leftist rally...
...President Grover Cleveland designated Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as a legal holiday. But while the day still honors the U.S. workingman, it has evolved over the years into a much more significant date in the life of the American consumer. No seasonal divide so sharply separates the living and buying patterns of men, women and children across the land. Summer is over, no matter what the calendar says, and change reaches deep into the nation's habits, mood and marketplace...
...short week eventually "if we start a drive and make enough fuss." Or perhaps talking of labor's future was better than talking about labor's present. With unemployment high (5.3%) and union membership waning, labor has been having its troubles at the bargaining table lately. The workingman's wages-like the businessman's prices and profits-are rising at a much slower rate than in recent years...
...does he think he is telling U.S. Steel, or any other business for that matter, when they should and should not raise prices? I am a workingman, but am very much in favor of free businesses of all sizes...
Solace in Teen-Agers. Per&243;n turned Congressmen into quivering yes men, crushed the judiciary, seized the press, took over universities, tortured political prisoners. But only rarely did he touch the workingman or his union...