Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pregnant woman should not attempt to ''eat for two." She should gain 15 to 20 lb. during pregnancy, but not more than 25 lb. Fasting will not make the baby smaller. Its size is largely beyond the mother's control, though moderate exercise may help...
...germ of dissension in the whole NRA program. For the A. F. of L. the National Recovery Act was a windfall second only to the World War. In 1916 U. S. organized labor had about 2,800,000 members. By 1920 it had more than 5,000,000. This gain was not due to improved conditions inside trade unionism but to favorable outside factors, including a limitation on immigration, the absence of millions of regular workers with the A. E. F., a Democratic administration at Washington that pampered Labor as a means of keeping up Wartime production. After...
...Personal letters are put on the desk so that you can gain a more intimate knowledge of the girl who occupies the room...
First in Milwaukee, where met the Federation of Teachers, a trade union with 8,000 members affiliated with the A. F. of L., Vice President Abraham Lefkowitz screamed: "The bankers produce a financial crisis and then manipulate that crisis for their own further financial gain. . . . They then hypocritically cry for reduction in taxes and hence for reductions in wages." Cried President Henry Richardson Linville: "We can easily believe that a great banker may develop a supreme contempt for education, while with one hand he compels the legislature of the Empire State to reduce the salaries of teachers, and with...
...Felix Frankfurter to Washington. As a U. S. attorney Lawyer Stimson had been vastly impressed with his ruddy, nervous little assistant who still had an accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt...