Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. . . . There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not Labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human life...
...revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked and sold and again sold, learning slowly, always asking, "Where to? What next?" And he hears a lament of the poor that is unique among all the songs of poverty that other poets have heard: "/ earn my living. I make enough...
Some 200 women and men, strong of arm and body, who earn their living as physiotherapists, sat down in a Los Angeles auditorium last week for a dance performance which was part entertainment, part instruction. Four strapping girls in short trunks rambled onto the stage, swung legs and arms, rotated feet, hands, heads, clenched fists, raised knees, arched backs, twisted torsos, squatted...
...educational bureau of Fidelity Investment Association in Wheeling, W. Va. observed the nation's commencement season last week by publishing a survey of the prospective earning power of the Class of 1936. As a group, this year's 141,000 college graduates will work 40 years, make $27,000,000,000. Each will earn $194,000, as compared to $88,000 life earnings for high-school graduates, $64,000 for grammar-school graduates...
...Bloomingdale, N. J., police jailed Eng Wing Koon, 27, Manhattan laundryman who proposed to earn his way to Hollywood by tying his three-foot pigtail on roadside trees, swinging painfully for five minutes, collecting fees from interested passersby...