Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis toured abroad, visiting and nurturing foreign chapters of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which he has been director-general for 22 years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now only some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan...
Bert Martin of Denver, secretary-treasurer (resigned) of the Farmer-Labor party. Reason: Agriculture...
...deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring something home, and pay taxes on it. (e) I gather also that it is moral turpitude on my part to have managed large enterprises. The hope to rise from the ranks of labor to the ranks of management will, however, probably not be crushed from the heart of the American boy even by this onslaught...
Many and ingenious are the devices by which labor unions provide work for strikers, hoping to outwit, outlast the resistance of employers. In New Bedford, Mass., striking textile workers have turned fishermen (TIME, Aug. 13). In Milwaukee, Wis., last week, striking clothing workers turned industrialists...
...without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that of A. H. Woods. A Shubert's face is always cheerful, his eyes are bright, his clothes old-fashioned but snappy. The theatre is to the Shuberts a melodious grocery store in which they labor with perfect equanimity, knowing their business well and putting up packages that are tidy though unwrapped. This year the Shuberts plan to produce three operettas, one musical comedy, three musical versions of books, a "spectacular musical extravaganza," musical entertainment, two revues and a play...