Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen Mr. WPA Worker was earnest, well-spoken Clyde Brown of Colfax, Iowa, who kept eight children on $44 a month until he was laid off a road project last fortnight...
Since November 1937, the union has had a contract with Mergenthaler's Brooklyn plant. Last month it called a strike to resist a 10% wage cut for 1,600 employes...
...campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure has on her shelves 273 quarts of vegetables, 40 quarts of meat, six glasses of jelly, 99 quarts of pickles, 18 gallons of syrup...
...Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed work-for-relief system is a flop, declared an infant daughter died because of "the conditions I had to live under...
Several legislators who allegedly accepted stock in the water-closet company in return for pushing through a health bill for it were arrested with Lieutenant Governor Hayes on this and other counts. Last month when the trials began Mr. Hayes and 22 others pleaded not guilty. Two other defendants pleaded guilty, one of them Harry Mackenzie,† longtime first lieutenant of Connecticut's late Republican dictator, hard-bitten John Henry Roraback...