Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choose these roads to the modern languages are supposed to spend five hours a week in attending the stated meetings of their class; presumably, a serious student would expend two hours a night besides, in preparing of the recitations and in doing the reading; an exceptionally hard worker might devote three hours five times a week to the study of his French or German. Thus the maximum estimate of time required for these courses is twenty hours a week. There is however, one great difference between the time spent in the languages and the similar effort made in the sciences...
Wife, mother, grandmother, schoolmarm, lecturer, editor, charitarian, social service worker, shopkeeper, clubwoman, colyumist, traveler-the nation had been given continuous demonstrations of Mrs. Roosevelt in all these capacities by this week when the time came for her to function formally as First Lady, at the opening of Washington's social season. U. S. women of all ranks and ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip...
...organized today, and those of the workmen in its employ there is no fundamental community. Our economy is founded on price, and the role of the producer is, even under normal conditions, to keep wages as low as the traffic will bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression in the price level creates a sharp problem in that balance; and when, as is happening today, the producer finds he can make no such concessions as the workers demand, a crisis in the labour market results. Until...
...talking up the idea to his friends, holding meetings in his Manhattan penthouse. Last week in Manhattan a full-blown Newspaper Guild of New York* adopted a constitution. It had the signed support of 500 working newspaper men & women in the city, was going hard after membership. Any editorial worker (including photographers, librarians, cubs) on a daily newspaper or recognized press association may join. The Guild is corresponding with similar groups in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Duluth, St. Paul, El Paso, Dallas, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, Chicago and Honolulu, looks forward to a national organization. Newspapermen do not expect...
...Beside the advantage to those assisted by the Social Service Worker, there are also unquestionable benefits for the worker himself. He learns lessons in leadership, self-expression and organization that will stand him in good stead in business, politics, and teaching. Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives said 'When the question is asked as to whether social work in college is of any assistance to the graduate who takes part in the political work of his community the answer is easy. Unquestionably such work is of the utmost value...