Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Dr. Hugh Potter Baker, 55, was inaugurated as president of Massachusetts State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson...
...first documented there were many who suspiciously scented a rat in the structure, saying that it had Fascist proclivities of a disturbing nature. The latest "fighting speech" of General Johnson will not do much to allay these worries. Dragging out the musty old rhetorical formula of banker and steel-worker pulling together in sweet harmony toward Prosperity, the General has added as a corollary that strikes are inimical to that teamwork; and this declaration has been approvingly echoed in the press everywhere. In place of the strike, "mediation boards" are to settle all industrial disputes...
...Agnes Weston, famed British temperance worker and self-styled "Sailor's Friend," died some ten years ago, aged...
...Vickers (RKO-Radio). Sinclair Lewis' story of a woman social worker is satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
...novelist, he planned a Balzacian series on the U. S. panorama. Critics jeered at his third novel (The Man Who Cannot Die}, and Author Williamson made up his mind "to get off my literary high horse, to come down to earth and express myself simply." A fierce worker, he could easily write two novels a year, fills in his time by writing children's books. With his second wife he moves restlessly about the world; at present they are in Portugal. "Dark as a gypsy, nervous as a cat," he talks flippantly, fluently - "a sort of thinking...