Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Facilities for disabled are listed in another book, out this week: Normal Lives for the Disabled (Macmillan, $2.50) by Edna Yost in collaboration with Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth who, with her husband, late Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, developed many industrial jobs for handicapped men after World War I. * For those who need it, the Institute offers job training. There are over 2,000 kinds of jobs that handicapped people can fill, 275 of them for people with arm injuries. The value of such people to industry is beginning to be appreciated (TIME, June...
Down in one department the Hon. Mr. Beckham stood over worker No. 357-908 watching her as she went about her rubbery task. As he rubber-necked, worker No. 356-667 called across two across of assembly line in her sweet little voice, "Hey, Edna, stop drooling...
...Last week the Georgia Press Association hung a portrait of Miss Edna's late husband, who died in 1939, in the Hall of Fame of the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...
...Miss Edna's editorials are read and quoted far from Quitman. Sometimes she chooses national topics: "Arthur Krock in the New York Times was lamenting that we had lost the freedom of the press for the duration of the war. He'd better be concerned about what we did with the freedom of the press when we had it." But mostly her thoughts and her words are of Quitman and Brooks County...