Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of $7056 gross sales was reported this year. From this sum, after paying off the overhead, the employment office gave salaries of $4 per week to each stand worker and $6 per week to the captain of each stand. In addition to these salaries, $633 was given the workers in bonuses and prizes...
...ECONOMICS OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM. Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York and London. 1934. $1.50. Depressions by Joseph A. Schumpeter, Purchasing Power by Edward Chamberlin, Controlling Industry by Edward S. Mason, Helping the Worker by Douglas V. Brown, Higher Prices by Seymour E. Harris, Helping the Farmer by Wassily W. Leontief, Economics versus Politics by Overton H. Taylor...
...least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like one. Short, ugly and unfeminine, she was a bright student and a hard worker. She liked men's company, the more Rabelaisian the better, but the idea of marriage horrified her. When she came to the throne after her father's death, she let it be clearly understood that there never would be a prince consort. Her bedfellow was a lady...
...easy matter to thread the creeds and dogmas of dozens of sects and bring them together in a common Christian purpose. Out of a bog of conflicting theological ideas Dr. North led his confrères to high and solid ground-social service. An active minister and city missions worker, he believed that "when the standards of the Gospel shall have become the rule of Society, His Kingdom will be here." He wrote the first social creed for the Federal Council which was the cornerstone of its existence. That stirring document called for conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes; protection...
...shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting to be hanged for an anti-war murder while the U. S. joins a new European conflict. Manhattan audiences emerged from the theatre to hear hawkers of The Dally Worker (Communist) shouting, "All About to Hell with America," "Full Account of the Revolution...