Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strong." Neither sin nor suit can solve the problem which confronts Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx. When Miss Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent...
There must be many who wonder, as does Mr. Donham in his letter, "just what is wrong with Mr. Hearst, his news-reels, or his newspapers." In the eyes of many--all too many--the Hearst papers' greatest sin is their sensationalism. But the evil goes far deeper than mere lack of a sane perspective: and the realization that even intelligent men fail to appreciate the danger in Hearst's reporting, interpretation, and selection of news is arresting...
...last week in the Vatican's official organ, Osservatore Romano, expressing "pained disgust" at the fact that Germans who had "spent a few days in the residence of a sovereign with whom the Reich is in relations of friendship, should be punished as if they had committed a sin. . . . Christ also received a rope when He was arrested, questioned, attacked and mocked because He was accused of having indulged in politics after a pilgrimage of love and redemption...
...Avery, publications editor of the Bureau of Plant Industry, pointed out to the House Civil Service Committee how unfair the law is to marriageable lady jobholders, how it spoils their prospects with all the job-holding males in Washington. Some girls, she said, prefer to risk their souls in sin rather than risk their jobs in marriage. E. Claude Babcock, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, testified that he personally knew of at least nine cases of jobholders living together without benefit of matrimony. Before nightfall, the question of Spread-the-Work v. Spread-the-Sin had become...
Pleased with the success of his effort, Mr. Babcock raised his bid, declared that he had evidence of at least 80 cases of sin on the payroll...