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Word: brookline (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humorist | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Children Freed | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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