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...marched to the cemeteries behind the Red flag-Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro came upon a rarely heartening scene. In the piazza of Casaglia, a town near Bologna, a young Franciscan friar was haranguing a sizable crowd through a public-address system. The message he had for his workingman audience: Communism will fail because it betrays the worker...
Grandpa, she said, was Fred Hunt, a radical and a self-appointed friend of the workingman with whom Lucille, then a struggling young movie bit-player, her mother, her brother and a sister were living in 1936. Grandpa's radicalism, she recalled, kept the household in an uproar. When the Balls hired cleaning women, Grandpa drove them away by telling them they weren't being paid enough. But Grandpa was 71 and subject to heart attacks. When he insisted that the Balls register as Communists in 1936, they all did for fear that he would pop an artery...
Releasing Corp.) is what the wife (Anna Magnani) of a poor Rome workingman calls her rather plain little pigtailed daughter (Tina Apicella). The mother has harddriving ambitions to make a movie actress out of her little "Most Beautiful," but in the end she turns down a film offer because she comes to the conclusion that her daughter should lead a simple, healthy family life instead...
...argument that free entry of goods made by "cheap" foreign labor would drag down the American workingman's standard of living, the Board answered: "Foreign labor is not cheap! Productivity as well as wages determine the value of labor. The employees of Detroit and Michigan industries, as a result of heavy investments in equipment, tools and machinery, and improved techniques of production, are competitive with other labor groups throughout the world." Free trade, said the Board, is inevitable. And it is illogical to send American products abroad with loans, grants and outright gifts to buy the goods...
...descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional trappings, but almost any workingman can afford a hound...