Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awarded yearly to "the player who is of the greatest value to Harvard hockey, not so much because of his ability but because of his heart." The idea behind the award is to present this trophy not necessarily to the best player, nor again to the hardest worker, but to the player who best exemplifies John Tudor's qualities. He was an athlete who came through in the pinches, rose to his best in the big games and gave just a little bit more than it was thought he could give...
...social worker's outlook on the problem will be presented by Dr. Selekman, who is executive director of the Associate Philanthropies of Boston. He will outline the background of the Lafolette-Costigan Bill, which was introduced to appropriate $375,000,000 for unemployment relief, and will compare it with the Wagner Bill now before Congress...
...also a facile imitator of the speech and dialect of any class of people. Mixing with the workers, his disguise has never been questioned. As an account of his first year's work he wrote "What's On the Worker's Mind", which gave a new insight into the life of the industrial laborer. Every year he gives the Business School an account of his varied experiences. His topic this year was "How the Unemployed Feel...
...reception in his Cabinet Room for the staff of seven-weeks-old Reconstruction Finance Corp. General Dawes, R. F. C. president, explained: "These people . . . have been sitting up until 2 a. m. and later, to get the corporation's difficulties straightened out and its operation perfected." For each worker the President had a handshake and a word of thanks. During its operation, R. F. C. has authorized loans totaling $183,000,000, divided as follows: Agriculture $75,000,000; financial institutions, $61,800,000; railroads, $47,000,000. Only a little over $87,000,000, however, had been advanced...
...Significance. Fundamental in the new measure was this clear statement of U. S. public policy on Labor: Whereas under prevailing economic conditions . . . the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment, wherefore it is necessary that he have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor . . . in concerted...