Word: workday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...
...winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, still suffers occasionally from a gassing there received. Lately he was elected President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America...
...present $200,000,000 status, and to a place in world esteem which makes it, unlike many another religious or semi-religious body, internationally and provincially welcome. Abundantly energetic, Dr. Mott is that type of man who would call that day grand on which he was called dynamic. His workday begins 10 minutes before he takes a commuters' train from Montclair, N. J., to Manhattan. At the station he is met by his secretary, begins immediately to dictate letter after letter and continues dictating across the Hudson. Luncheon is to him no gastronomic interlude ; it is incidental to concurrent...
Five-Day Week. From 1776 to 1835, the U. S. workday was 12 to 14 hours. Between 1840 and 1870, it was ten hours. By 1918, it had been lowered to eight hours. The next objective of the A. F. of L. is to reduce the U. S. working week to five days...