Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget that what really counts at the bottom of it all is that the men and women willing to work can have a decent job, a decent job to take care of themselves and their homes and their children adequately; that the farmer, the factory worker, the storekeeper, the gas station man, the manufacturer, the merchant-big and small-the banker who takes pride in the help that he can give to the building of his community-that all these can be sure of a reasonable profit and safety for the earnings that they make-not today nor tomorrow alone...
Favorably reported to the Senate by Wyoming's mild Senator Harry H. Schwartz, member of the Senate Committee on Claims, was S. 3046, A BILL For the relief of Richard D. Krenik, a farmer of Graham, Wash., awarding $450 to Farmer Krenik because WPA blasters working near his farm, on the Puyallup River Flood Relief Project No. 632, did with their dynamite so addle and jelly 250 turkey eggs in his incubators and under his hens that only 40 hatched, and of these 40 poults, themselves none too strong, 20 died soon after...
Fish, famed Republican neutrality supporter, is from President Roosevelt's own Dutchess County and Bernard, Farmer-Laborite from Minnesota, will enlarge on the collective security program...
...Byoir & Associates, Manhattan pressagents, began to send out press releases from a Troy hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students to be tax conscious...
...childhood, Author Stuart remembers rabbit-hunting first, hard work next. At nine he hired out to a well-to-do farmer for 25? a day. From eleven to 15 he stopped school to cut corn and timber, work on a paving gang. In high school he licked hell out of a 200-lb. bully. At 18, after running away with a carnival, he worked in a Birmingham steel mill. At Lincoln Memorial, a mountain college in Tennessee, he almost killed a hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University...