Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke...
...typical unmarried mother in New York is a domestic servant with only a grammar school education, is aged 16 to 24. Most of the servants were either Negro or immigrant white women...
...almost invariably filled with political appointees. To be sure, this evil is common to Civil Services the world over, and will be corrected only over a space of years, so deeply is the spoils system rooted in democratic countries. Because the odds are heavily against the young civil servant's being able to rise to an executive position, as is the case under the existing arrangement, it is natural that the looser, more pliable hierarchies in private industry attract so many college graduates...
...President of the U. S. himself for signing the renewal, but he did savagely attack the President's closest adviser, Donald Richberg, Director of the National Emergency Council and "Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called Director Richberg a Benedict Arnold, labeled him as deceitful, treacherous, hypocritical...
Fowler settled down again to his morning run-and-dip, his pipe, his work, his wife. As she grew older, both knew she was dying of cancer: neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...