WITH LIBERTY AND
LEISURE FOR ALL
such, what he wants most is time
— “time to eat, time to live, time
to be happy, time to be a person.
… More education, more recreation, more pleasure, more rest,
more time for himself.”
An Italian immigrant steelworker fresh off a 24-hour shift, responding to the claim that people
in his profession received good pay,
put it this way that same year: “To
hell with money! No can live!”
Monsignor John Ryan, an
economist and Catho