Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859, an Irish Quaker. Her father had been apprenticed to a jeweler, turned to law, helped nominate Lincoln at Chicago in 1860, lived to serve 29 fruitful years in the House of Representatives. Her mother was an aristocratic Bonsall. As a girl Florence...
...KELLEY...
Because State laws were weak or unenforced. Mrs. Kelley was one of the first to demand Federal legislation against child exploitation. Self-interest rather than high ideals caused organized labor to swing to her support, for every child put out of a job meant a new job for a grownup. Mrs. Kelley and the National Child Labor Committee lobbied and lobbied at Washington, finally in 1906 won a $50.000 appropriation for an investigation. It showed conditions just as bad as Mrs. Kelley expected. In 1912 the Federal Children's Bureau was created but it had no power...
...Artemus L. Gates, of N. Y. Trust Co.............5,000 Walter S. Gifford, of A. T. &. T .........1,000 George H. Howard, of United Corp............2,000 Arthur Curtiss James ............2,000 Percy H. Johnston, of Chemical Bank & Trust ........1,000 Cornelius F. Kelley, of Anaconda ..........2,000 Clarence H. Mackay ...........2,000 Jlenry C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker ........5,000 Charles E. Mitchell ................10,000 Frederick K. Morrow, of United Cigar. .............1,000 Thomas Nelson Perkins, of A. T. & T. .............500 Wm. C. Potter, of Guaranty Trust Co. .............10,000 Seward Prosser, of Bankers Trust Co. ..............10,000 Alfred...
...Clos '35, W. C. Coleman '35, S. T. Dawson, Jr. '36, John Dorman '36, J. S. England '35, C. S. B. Fraley, Jr. '34, M. G. Grover '35, R. M. Gummere, Jr. '34, W. H. Jeffreys, Jr. '36, R. C. Johnson, Jr. '36, A. G. Kandoian '34, C. S. Kelley III, '36, J. W. Kellogg '36, D. H. Manheimer '36, C. F. Morrill '34, Edward Motley, Jr. '36, W. F. Nichols '34, C. H. Parker oeC., Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, Thomas Perry, Jr. '36, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, Sergio Portal '34, C. W. Randall, Jr. '36, E. H. Robbins...