Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours a day during the Christmas rush, trotting packages between a store delivery wagon and front doors. One night the boy, too tired to go home, curled up in the back of the wagon in the stable. Someone rolled it out into the icy yard and the little worker froze to death in his sleep. Mrs. Kelley carried that story up & down the U. S. as a challenge to greedy employers, used it to launch her national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington...
...three years in a row, last week clambered into a shell and rowed two miles up the Charles River at Harvard's commencement. Of the nine, all 70 or over but still spry, four were in Who's Who. They were Stroke Joseph Lee. now a social worker. Russell Sturgis Codman, hotelman and Harvard trustee, Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore doctor, Charles Pelham Curtis, Winchester, Mass., lawyer. The other five, prosperous respectable citizens who probably deserve to be in Who's Who also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club...
Oberlin College (Ohio) Jerome Davis of Yale Divinity School. . D.D. Pianist Ernest Hutcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mus. D. Naturalist Herbert Spencer Jennings. . . Sc.D. Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt.D. James Brown Scott, lawyer, peace-worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than 25 books. Broad-shouldered, ruddy-faced, unaffected, Walter de la Mare looks less like a poet than most poets, more like a sea-captain. Unclubbable, retiring, he lives in London's suburbs with his wife and four children, when he goes to the city...
...sketch showed a central figure who looked like a blond Russian (eventually posed by Tammany Boss John Francis Curry's grandnephew Hugh Jr., 22) under a big television machine which projected on the rest of the design the worker's choices. These were: marching soldiers with gas-masked heads like wasps; Communists trooping in Moscow's Red Square; a group of unemployed rioting under hard-jawed mounted police; socialite bridge-players and fox-trotters; women exercising; students; a worker, a student and an unemployed worker listening to a Leader. Through the composition criss-crossed two spurs, showing...