Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression has outlined the conflict between the individual and collective society, economic nationalism and international cooperation, capitalist and worker, and all the other complications of modern industrial civilization. It has given publicity to the thinkers in every field who challenge the existing order. Although it has barely touched the world the undergraduate lives in, (it may have forced him to modify his way of living but it has not forced him to abandon it) yet it has been sufficient to give reality to the difficulties which confront...
...decision of the United States Supreme Court ordering a new trial for the eight Negroes convicted in the Scottsboro case can hardly be less acceptable to the nation at large than to the editors of the New Masses and the Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist bally-hoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz Gold Medal (top engineering award) for making 2% copper ore profitable; Film Actress Greta Garbo, by an open letter asking that Sweden's King Gustaf give...
...Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters worker-and John Jacob Raskob...
...praise Calverton for his ideas, but the fact remains that his style is, to say the least, pedestrian. And I do not suspect that his class consciousness is the result of a personal frustration any more than that of a worker is such because he "personally" is being exploited, "personally" realizes his solidarity with other workers. But I do think that speculation on the cause of the reviewer's class consciousness, as shown in his opinion of Calverton, would be fruitful. Herbert E. Robbins...