Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears that Mr. Ely and Mr. Dillon, uncomfortable and bored as they may be, have little to fear from the present farce. But one is inclined to worry about the status of Mr. Gill. He is a capable, honest, and intelligent public servant. In his report to Governor Ely on January 24, Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, an unbiased observer, stated that the Gill administration at Norfolk was "the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts." His answer to the allegations presented yesterday were as satisfactory as any reasonable man could desire, and the indications are that...
Seasoned Groupers were quick to point out last week that many a family has discovered that their faith is, among other things, a solution of the servant problem. A typical case is that of Mrs. Harden Crawford of Rumson, N. J. Running her household under God's guidance has changed its atmosphere and "the cooking has improved unbelievably...
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE-Sir Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...
...time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial venture. Early in the book we have a premonition...