Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions, lived in quiet ease on a California ranch and aboard a yacht, yet caused his editors always to cry out for the masses, for Labor, for the underdog. Biographer Gardner answers them in two ways. Explicitly the ''Old Man" is quoted as saying of his wealth to a worker: "I can't help it. ... You are too lazy to think for yourselves. . . . You pay me a big income because you think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?perhaps one decision in six months?and that's what I am paid for. . . . Don't get the hired...
...Manhattan, while trying to escape from jail disguised as a visiting church worker, Mrs. Jennie Goldstein, plump, fur-coated, wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and with prayer books and a bundle of religious tracts tucked under her arm, paused and twittered to Head Keeper Edward A. Glennon, "It's a very fine day the good Lord has given us, isn't it?" "A fine day, indeed!" roared Head Keeper Glennon as Mrs. Goldstein turned to leave by the prisoners' entrance instead of the visitors', and clapped her back in her cell...
...publications such as Mr. Beard's "Five-Year Plan for America" and "The Responsibility of Bankers" by James Truslow Adams. The "Actualities of Agricultural Planning," by Franklin D. Roosevelt, sets forth an enlightened reforestation program coupled with the creation of rural-industrial communities, which would not only bring the worker out of the crowded cities, but also afford a ready market to the farmer. Among the other writers included by the editor are Andre Maurois, Philip LaFollette, and Nicholas Murray Butler...
...cases mentioned, a trained nurse, a Hungarian social worker, and a Yale professor, all applying for citizenship, professed a sincere aversion to warring on their fellow men. On this account, they refused to swear that they would bear arms in defense of the country, although willing in all other respects to serve it to the best of their ability. The liberal minority of the court more wisely considered that the desirability of these three as citizens far offset whatever drawback their pacifistic influence might have...
Heretofore, as factory worker, bookkeeper, reporter, theatrical producer, furniture dealer, realtor, concessionaire, song-publisher and showman, Congressman Bloom has had small time to master the fine points of esthetics. He cannot find the time to master them now, but he has familiarized himself with the career of Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also. When Congress tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom...