Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial "angels" were identified by bug-eyed, mustachioed Alexander Trachtenberg, a naturalized Russian who manages Communist publishing and propaganda outfits in Manhattan. One was Miss Anna Rochester, a worker for the Labor Research Association in Manhattan, whom Witness Trachtenberg respectfully described as "a very wealthy woman." The other was a retired New Jersey manufacturer (of compressed oxygen), named Abraham A. Heller, who got into the news 20 years ago as "the millionaire Bolshevist," still contributes liberally to Communist ventures. "He is a very wealthy man," said admiring Mr. Trachtenberg. "And a member of the Communist Party?" ejaculated scornful Mr. Dies...
...These of you who are alive five, seven, or ten years from now will have a task of reconstruction, the labor of creating a world in which men can live decently together," Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, told nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed the main dining room in the Union last night...
Ginjiro Fujiwara, Japan's "Paper King" (he virtually controls the production of newsprint), Japan's most positive and noisy industrialist, was also along. A notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...chartered all available vessels to evacuate some 17,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe, but labor trouble delayed the sailings. For every U. S. seaman shipping to war zones the National Maritime Union demanded a $250 bonus, $25,000 insurance. Ships finally got under way when the Maritime Commission promised that any bonuses later agreed upon would be retroactive...
...Britain, the Ministry of Labor set up a Central Register of Persons with Scientific, Professional, Technical or Higher Administrative Qualifications. Persons so qualified who want to help the Allies win the war send in their names to the register. Government departments and industries send in their demands for trained personnel. The Central Register officials then match qualifications against demands, suggest a specific person for a specific job. If mutually satisfactory, the appointment is made. At week's end a large but undisclosed number of scientists had registered but few allocations had been put through...