Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union? Because they minister to the laboring classes, Labor wants social workers in its camp. C. L. O. is out to organize 50,000 of them. President Jacob Baker of C. L. O.'s United Federal Workers of America (Government employes' union) sent emissaries to Seattle with a message saying: "Unorganized, these [Government] workers present a danger to the labor movement. . . . They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves...
Crowding Aubrey Williams out of the headlines last week came his chief, Harry Hopkins, with a detailed answer to detailed reports, by Scripps-Howard Reporter Thomas L. Stokes, of WPA pressurizing in Kentucky for the renomination of Senate Majority Leader Barkley. Mr. Hopkins had sent some of his people into Kentucky to check up on Reporter Stokes's allegations. Out of 22 alleged improprieties, only two had been substantiated: 1) A WPA county supervisor, Lee Garden, had distributed political registration cards among WPA workers; 2) A WPA district foreman, Cleve Keeney, had told WPAsters under him they "were going...
...unsentimental penologists have remained singularly unimpressed by these horror stories. Two years ago, however, France's Popular Front Government started to do something about the penal colony. Last week Premier Edouard Daladier by decree prescribed a slow death for it. No more prisoners are to be sent there, but on the other hand, none of the 5,000 there now will be repatriated. Since the convicts die at the rate of about 500 a year, it will take about ten years to liquidate the penal colony...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...