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...wife of a Cardiff workingman, 41-year-old, pink-sweatered Florence Poynter, mother of two, brought cheers from 4,000 representatives at the Conservative Party's 71st annual conference at Blackpool last week. Her husband, said Mrs. Poynter, earned only ?4 17s. 2d. (about $13.50) weekly, so that she had to leave her children and go out scrubbing. She had been better off before the war when her husband had brought home only ?2 10s. By thus dramatically emphasizing the rise in the cost of living and affirming her faith in the Conservative Party, now in opposition, Mrs. Poynter...
Grant started the plan, says he, because "I've knocked around, seen the capitalists and the bankers and the industrialists, but I've never liked the system. I just believe the workingman should participate in the fruits of his labor." But he also feels it is the best way to make sure "the Journal will live ... If I leave it to a lot of trustees or fat boys in the front office . . . they won't care about it. It doesn't mean their life blood . . . their very bread and water. If I can inspire the employees...
...really expect the workingman to come to church to sing 'I will think upon Rahab and Babylon' ... or such gibberish as the verse of the 68th Psalm beginning, 'Rebuke the company of the spearmen'? I am told that the correct translation of these words is 'Rebuke the hippopotamus.'* Our churchgoers would sing this with equal unction if they had it before them, as fashionable ladies cheerfully sing the Magnificat, which is more violent than The Red Flag...
Gussie Busch, who still refers to good beer as "the workingman's champagne," attributes much of Budweiser's success to its lengthy and more costly brewing process, in which it is fermented twice. Although the company has spent $64 million since Repeal to expand plants and boost production, Gussie Busch says it is still a race between the architect and the brew-master-and the brewmaster is in the lead...
Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...