Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Edmund Dewey made headlines with vote-appeal for Labor last week by arresting 14 bullyboys employed by private detective agencies as guards and strikebreakers in contravention of a year-old State law prohibiting such agencies from hiring help with police records...
...Downing Street for a 4O-minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
...thinking Joe Lyons, who was endowed with all the homely virtues, left a record of accomplishment that might have been envied by what many Australians considered more brilliant predecessors. "Honest Joe" abandoned teaching school for a political career at the age of 30; energy and courage made him a Labor Premier in ultraconservative, mountainous Tasmania, smallest and loveliest of the Australian States...
This is the first time that Harvard has been the scene of an organized labor conference although proceedings will be open not only to union members, but to all teachers and "all interested in the problems of teachers...
...rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad of British composers, headed by London's famed...