Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes will make the system function as it should. Whether the system is capitalism or socialism, he cares little. "The crux of the matter is, who receives the factory income? As the case now stands, it is a six-cornered fight between the landlord ... the bondholder . . . the stockholder ... the worker ... the management . . . and the state. If the worker or the state wins out, it is socialism; if landlord, bondholder and stockholder . . . it is capitalism; if the management wins out it is, so far, unnamed...
Unlike many economists who are inclined to cheer for the worker and the state, Mr. Chase has no particular objection to the rich, but he says: "What no system can bear indefinitely is the continual rowelling of its vitals by those who are trying to get rich. It makes little difference whether they succeed or fail; the operation is disastrous in either case." For the benefit of young men on the make, he lists 16 ways of getting rich. Some of them...
Dutifully Trubee Davison studied law at Columbia, allied himself as a lowly worker with the local Republican machine. He attended the 1920 national convention to watch the big wheels turn. He became secretary to Charles Dewey Hilles, New York's National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event...
...Metre Walk, an Olympic event that it cost nothing to watch, was examined from the rear last week by Los Angeles urchins who followed the walkers through Griffith Park. Thomas William Green, 39-year-old English railroad worker, was immune to jeers or encouragement. He started slowly, took the lead after 28 mi., when seven other walkers had collapsed from the heat, finished first in 4 hr., 50 min., 10 sec. Second was Janis Dalinsh of Latvia. He collapsed at the finish, had to be carried home as did Ugo Frigerio, winner of Olympic walking races...
...tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name of Al Shean, became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker. She married an Alsatian immigrant named Samuel Marx who frequently sat up all night playing pinochle in his tailor-shop. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Marx had five sons: Leonard (Chico), Arthur (Harpo), Milton (Gummo). Julius (Groucho) and, ten years later, Herbert (Zeppo...