Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole and transatlantic nights, in Manhattan, of alcoholism and grave injuries suffered when he stepped in the path of a taxicab; Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, following an operation on her foot; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Chicago, of bronchitis; Film Actress Ann Harding, in Jacksonville, Fla., of a dislocated shoulder caused she knew...
...found that if machines do not "rest" once a week and receive a weekly tuning-up they break down, wear out at an alarming rate. Factory executives found that on their free day the assistants left in charge fell down on their executives' jobs. Bitterly an in dividual worker would complain: "Four days of the week my friends find that I am not at home and on the fifth day I find that they are not at home...
...seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization...
Industrial Solidarity, official organ of the I. W. W., was suspended for lack of funds at the organization's Chicago convention. To replace it, Industrial Worker, ' more popular I. W. W. weekly, will be moved from Seattle to Chicago...
...Daily Worker, Communist daily published in Manhattan, appealed for 5,000 new paid subscriptions to see the paper through "the most critical period in its history...