Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had to collect the money, assemble the food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week...
Last month (TIME, May 13) 1,700 Loray mill strikers reduced their demands, hoped to be taken back to work. Their offer was refused. Strikebreakers ran the mills. Downhearted, the strikers returned to their headquarters on the edge of town, chewed over their idleness in savage disappointment...
Into the White House one day last week walked Chairman Dr. Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee for a three-hour conference with President Hoover. When he came out, he joked with newsgatherers about a man who had been "hired and fired in ten minutes." A mystified Press soon learned that Dr. Work had resigned his high political post...