Word: brookline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successors. In 1937 he resigned from The New Yorker, after writing an inimitable farewell whose gamut ranged from a baritone sigh to a neurasthenic squeak. True to his theme (that the town was getting too much for him) he went off to live in the Maine countryside, at North Brooklin. Thence he contributes a monthly page (considerably duller than his New Yorker quiddities) to Harpers...
...into the icy yard and the little worker froze to death in his sleep. Mrs. Kelley carried that story up & down the U. S. as a challenge to greedy employers, used it to launch her national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little...