Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
...Giannini (who are being investigated by her husband's SEC) she kept the conversation on the weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing a child, 'he's trying again...
...briefly and secretly to the U. S. in 1931 and betrayed his disillusion, a U. S. Communist told Fred Beal that the Russians should have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists. Their International Labor Defense not only refused to aid Fred Beal but covertly discouraged all efforts to save him. He was arrested last year at his brother's home in Lawrence...
...last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
...Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...