Word: mr
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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...
...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over...
More gravely than if he were picking Miss America, David Lasser had his witnesses choose Mr. & Mrs. WPA Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of 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...
...Kemp, who as the State's agent bought much of the land needed for right-of-way and who allegedly shared in some $86,000 of rakeoff commissions with two real-estate agents, Thomas N. Cooke of Greenwich and Samuel H. Silberman of Stamford. On the witness stand Mr. Cooke testified that Land Agent Kemp used to tip him off as to acreage the State wanted, that Cooke then arranged for the purchases and they split commissions of $32,814.92. Mr. Silberman testified to giving Kemp another $27,865. Mr. Kemp admitted receiving as much as $21,942 from...