Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, rushed to the White House with alarm on his lips. Cotton had dropped 40 to 50 points (TIME, Oct. 4), following the publication of the Department of Agriculture's estimate of a superabundant crop. Forthwith, President Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp., as a commission to devise orderly methods...
...surprising that Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, was a part of the labor news last week. She made a move to end the Passaic, N. J., textile workers' strike;* despatched a letter to Col. Charles S. H. Johnson, Vice President of the Botany Worsted Mills, conspicuous on the employers' side of the deadlock, urging him to recognize the union organization...
...39th week. The original leader, Albert Weisbord, lean 26-year-old dynamo from Harvard Law School, retired in August when the American Federation of Labor granted a charter to the textile workers. The A. F. of L. has not yet come any nearer settling the strike than did Mr. Weisbord...
Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
...fiery steed has lost his old snoring manners; he has become a docile old gray mare. Mr. Mencken will have to add the American Federation of Labor to his list of American Inanities...