Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, the critic is patriotic whether he be a businessman, a worker, a farmer or a politician if he says, "I don't like the methods you are using to solve the problem; I believe it would be far better if we were to use the following alternate method'' ... In this great evolution through which we are passing, the average American is doing splendid service by coming back at the captious critic and saying to him. "Well, old man, and what do you suggest...
...youngsters I've sent there haven't turned out so brilliantly." "I will succeed," promised John Henry, aged 14. He did succeed, graduating in 1892, serving with the Marines in the Spanish War, in Panama, Santo Domingo, and China. He was a strict disciplinarian, a hard worker, an able officer. He did not, however, get to France during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant of the Corps. And last November when Major General John Henry...
...pastor has a right to "a decent living." In 1928 the average one got $1,407 -about the wage of a semiskilled worker. Salary problems are complicated by the fact that there is an ample supply of trained ministers, an oversupply of 40,000 to 50,000 untrained ones...
Washington, March 2--A warning today came from Hays Jones, representing the Marine Worker's Industrial Union, New York, that its 15,000 members will be called out on strike if the shipping code is adopted in its present form...
Nearing 70, John R. Mott is tall, clear-eyed, square-faced, husky, a deliberate, disciplined worker, a restrained speaker. Though Biographer Mathews attempts to discount it, Dr. Mott is not famed for wit or humor. His great power is his ability to make his facts march into battle and win, to whip up men to enthusiasm, to pick able associates and subordinates. Biographer Mathews estimates Dr. Mott has raised $300,000,000 for his causes. Though given to car and seasickness, he has traveled 1,700,000 mi., the equivalent of 68 times around the world. Woodrow Wilson wanted...