Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left suffrage work after three years to take a copywriting job in a Manhattan advertising agency. She hated that, too, and went to Cincinnati to help start an experiment in preventive medicine. Her employers sent her back to New York and the next thing she knew she was in love. When that seemed to be turning out badly she ran away to Europe, as everybody...
Columnist's Credo. Dorothy Thompson thinks: a) that Roosevelt is headstrong (so is she) but b) has "a real world sense" (and so has she); c) that WPA is unhealthy (it smacks of social work); d) that the democratic ideal is most nearly realized in Vermont ("where the town meeting is still a living, functioning institution," i. e., where democracy functions as in the past); e) that the New Deal is incipient Fascism (she sees dictators in every closet); f) that government should be decentralized (her first seven years in small towns were happy); g) that "the educated female...
...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
...Silliest kudos of the week was announced by Villanova College's President, Rev. E. V. Stanford, who awarded an honorary doctorate of laws for "humanitarian work" to Radio's Major Edward ("Amateur Hour") Bowes...
...years ago Monica Dickens, beauteous, 23-year-old great-granddaughter of class-conscious Charles Dickens, went to work as a cook to get material for a book on belowstairs life. President Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, announced he had bought the book (One Pair of Hands), gaffed: "She has an easy pen and the same interest in the lower half of the people that Dickens was so well known...