Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buchanan, great-great-granddaughter of John Breckinridge, Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson, second cousin to Lawyer Henry Breckinridge (Lindbergh baby case). Married and widowed (retaining her maiden name) Mrs. Breckinridge lost two children. In their memory she planned a Nursing Service. With experience as a registered nurse, public health worker in France in 1918 with Anne Morgan's group, student of midwifery in England, she went to work in Kentucky...
...typical t.b. girl, reported Miss Nicholson "is not the girl who gads about drinking, smoking, and concentrating on wild parties until the small hours of the morning. She is not a diet faddist, nor does she overstrain herself in athletics. Neither is she a down-trodden factory worker from the slums. She is apt to be the third in a family of five children, one of whom died fairly young. Her father is engaged in some form of manufacturing or mechanical industry and her mother does not work outside the home. The family's income is in the neighborhood...
Hero is a young factory worker in a U.S. industrial town. Fed up with his drab, machined life he quits work, wanders out into the country. Going through some woods, he sees a Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit...
Hereafter $250 in any foreign currency will buy a Russian "worker's" visa. Russians of "other classes" (former kulaks, bourgeoisie, aristocrats) will be let off for $500 each "to reside abroad permanently...
...result of his work in Cincinnati, Mr. Seasongood was well qualified to speak of civic reform. He was a prominent worker in a "citizens' party" which rose up from among the people of Cincinnati to take upon its shoulders the fight against civic corruption, waste, and political jobbery. Organizing itself as effectively as any political party, this citizens' group won its fight. In 1925, Mr. Seasongood became mayor of the city and carried forward the work of reform. It was the benefit of this actual experience in civic reform that he gave his hearers in the six lectures which...