Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associations of government officials and the like) and private industry. Indeed, the future might very well reveal to us that the two-sided experience of a young man who has been trained in public service as well as in private activities may produce the best and most effective public servant, in the larger sense, for the American system of government...
...Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your...
...there was great strife abroad in all the land of the free. For lo! from out the far-off land of the royal oak hast come the voice of the priest, crying, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy people? Wherefore hast thou removed the names from the petition, O thou servant of the money changers?" And him that he revileth; him who representeth in honor in the city of the father of all the land hath been most wroth. His countenance hath fallen, and his anger hath kindled within him, and his dignity hath left him. Wherefore he hath vowed...
...Senate witness, "I think that if the housemother has to do all the cooking and all the washing and bring up a family of five children besides, she won't have time to educate the children. ... By the leisure class I mean the families who employ one servant, 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 families...
...premonitions. Partner Morgan's opinions on the leisure class were kidded on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. Some editors pointed out that in 1930 there were less than 30,000,000 families in the U. S., all of which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed by the 1930 census. The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, president of the Housewives League of America: "Does the woman active in business or social service as a lawyer, doctor...