Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
...Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take his $10,000 job in Washington, had nothing better in sight last week than a $7,500 place as labor-relations man for Reconstruction Finance Corp...
Later in the evening Lutheran massed choirs and Swedish patriotic organizations carrying over 700 banners-among them the red flag of Swedish labor, which is Socialist-approached the Royal Palace chanting solemnly, then began to shout "Kallio! Kallio!" Dr. Kallio, often considered dour, suddenly appeared with tears of emotion in his eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn...
...emphasize, have a national talent for what has been called "mass individualism." In the early years of his reign Swedes got the idea that Capital with its trusts and combines was milking the People with artificially high prices, but the Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their members number about one-third of the population, and the Swedish cooperatives...
...Herr Hitler's social reforms, in spite of their complete disregard of personal liberty of thought, word or deed, were on highly advanced democratic lines. The 'Strength through Joy' movement, the care for the physical fitness of the nation, and, above all, the organisation of the Labor Camps, an idea which Herr Hitler once told me that he had borrowed from Bulgaria, are typical examples of a benevolent dictatorship...