Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institution of compulsory military service: one year in the labor corps (18-19) ; two years in active service; 25 years in the reserve...
...Baseless is the bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...
...Next to TVA, the most prominent New Deal agency scheduled to face Supreme Court test this term is the National Labor Relations Board. AAA II (sec col. 2) and Wages-&-Hours may also have their turns if test cases can be sped...
...Moscow the powerful Comintern station went on the air with Popular Front declarations that "Chamberlain has saved the ruling classes at the expense of the toiling masses. . . . France has ceased to be a great power." In France, the General Confederation of Labor, representing some 3.000,000 trade unionists, announced its "acceptance of the Munich accords for suspending the course to war." but expressed fear that "these accords, limited to some powers, may create a preface to the Constitution of a Four-Power-Pact condemned by public opinion of all democratic countries'' (see p. 19). Paris-Soir, with...
Prime Ministers of British Dominions cabled to Neville Chamberlain their Cabinets' warmest congratulations. The British Labor movement, never militantly class-conscious and just plain anxious not to fight, was this week-as usual-the despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister...