Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King, Queen and Princes paused to mourn last week, but not for long. They are workers. Smiling, keen little King Prajadhipok puts all his brothers to work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...
...family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...
...Year's work in community mental hygiene...
...Nobody Knows." Living in Canton, Ohio, where his plant is located, he finds recreation in horses, fishing, speed boats, aviation. Indoors, he is serious at bridge. Autocratic in his philosophy of business, he feels one man must be unalterably in control. Yet he believes with Henry Ford that good work can come only from good wages, has never had a strike...
Died. Walter C. White, 53, Coca-Cola director, longtime motor maker, who last year sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise...