Word: toiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal funds allocated to his project. To WPA's payroll were transferred 15,639 players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses and quartets, 69 dance orchestras...
Mostly of peasant blood, the Radical-Militarists want Japan's great capitalists and its moderately prosperous middle-class squeezed for the benefit of its farmers and fishermen, who since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...down on our knees," said John D. Rust last week, "and picked cotton when we were boys. We decided then that we would try to invent a machine that would do this back-breaking toil. We have that machine. It will do the work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent...
...diplomas presented last year--they are adequate. But as one of those "sons of younger brothers" who were last June admitted to the company of learned men, I feel I have a very definite grievance as to that scrap of paper that I spent four years of toil to acquire. Let me quote from Professor Morison; "The signatures of this diploma (Mather's) are very interesting. First comes President Mather signed in his best Latin style, Crescentius Matherus". I look at the 1935 diploma before me. The signatures are far from interesting. They might be on a receipted bill...
...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...