Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt and Lazaro Cardenas are "two great statesmen who have appeared to extend a hand to labor," keynoted John L. Lewis at the opening session in Mexico City this week of the Latin American Labor Congress. "Mexico today is going forward in the same way as the United States because it has a great leader who believes in the rights and welfare of the common people...
...Denver, Colo., Irvin H. ("Call Me Pop") Hanes announced his candidacy for the position of State Auditor. Excerpts from his campaign literature: "His knowledge of the problems of the farmer and labor is practically a total loss. ... He is not the 'outstanding candidate" for this office. . . . He is not universally respected...
Wife of Financier Floyd Odium, Winner Cochran covets the mantle of the late Amelia Earhart more than she does prize money. But when told she had clinched the race and the $12,500, she cried: "Goody, goody!" But the race a Labor Day throng of 300,000 jammed the airport environs to watch was the Thompson Trophy free-for-all, 300 miles around pylons. Hottest shots in the field of eight were flashy Colonel Roscoe Turner, 1934 winner and unscathed veteran of six Thompson competitions; and his reckless young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they...
...number of Cabinet members, New Deal economists and liberal businessmen, considers its job "the most complete picture ever presented of the division of the national income. . . ." For its survey the National Resources Committee used figures compiled from a nationwide sampling by WPA through the bureaus of Home Economics and Labor Statistics. Between July 1935 and July 1936, some 300,000 families in 30 States (66 farm counties, 140 villages and 51 cities) were questioned. Correlated by a small, hard-working spinster named Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, who was once a home economics teacher at the University of Missouri, has been with...
...reporting banks in 101 cities showed the trend had been reversed for three consecutive weeks of August: loans rose $30,000,000 in New York City, $11,000,000 outside. Though there is always a seasonal expansion in August and though there was a slump in the week before Labor Day, Reserve officials asserted that the figures indicated the beginning of recovery had come to commercial credit as it has to the Stock Exchange and to most businesses...