Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis began a fresh week's work by journeying up to the Senate with something it had been expecting from him. Handing some papers to Vice President Dawes, he explained that they contained a report on unemployment in the U. S. as requested lately in the maiden speech of Senator Wagner of New York (TIME March 12). With the air of a man patting a pretty good bond on the back Secretary Davis said that while unemployment is "serious" it is "not so extensive or so grave as the estimates which have been generally...
...from Europe. He said the Committee must get the details from his subordinates. But he was delighted to give the Committee and the world the benefit of his long experience as an employer: "It has been a broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor I have never had a serious difficulty with my men in my lifetime. I believe in the eld theory of supply and demand...
...most important stockholders of the Bethlehem Steel are its workmen. I never made a cent out of Bethlehem Steel. It's just been a labor of love and all I have tried to do is drive a peg to mark progress in human relations...
...earnings in tips per gigolo per night generally range between 70 francs ($2.80) and 200 francs ($8.00); 2) A large percentage of Paris gigolos are not French; 3) French law does not permit the arrest or restraint of a French gigolo as such; 4) The Ministry of Labor has announced an intention to scrutinize more closely in future the applications of foreign males who seek permits to work as "dancers" in France. M. Chiappe expressed the hope that much good will be done by refusing permits to "foreign dancers" who appear in reality to be gigolos...
...blood and passion of the heart". To many Harvard men the English Department has been reduced to a group of definitive and meticulous scholars for the training of Ph.D.s who have failed, for the most part, to reach the undergraduate and who, in the maxe of sheer quantitative labor, have lost hold of the soul of their subject and of their audiences whose duty it is, at least, to interest...