Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey will also include a discussion of the recent book of Dean W. B. Donham '98. The name of this book, "Business Adrift", has a direct correlation with the subject of the speech. The volume, which appeared last week, was heralded as an important work in the business world. It is in general an appeal for foresight on the part of business and for a constructive policy on the part of capital in place of what are aptly described as so many rear-guard engagements...
...More ancient Scandinavians would have laid the dead noble, with his arms and funeral trappings, upon a funeral barge which then would have been fired, set adrift...
...When these unemployment situations come along, workers are simply turned adrift. Men should earn money, not have it doled out to them.* But unless employers change their tactics toward the Unions, we shall face either Federal unemployment insurance [i.e. the dole] to care for the jobless or have a revolution on our hands. The country cannot stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street...