Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This ... is an outstanding example of the ability of business leadership...
...investigators are asking why every recent Red Cross dollar was spent, of what use every Red Cross worker is, the wisdom of every Red Cross operation. Chairman Payne, as he remarked last week, "is more or less on trial." His "trial" judges, acting for the organization's Central Committee, are Eliot Wadsworth, Boston financier, onetime (1921-25) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; George Eaton Scott, Chicago steel founder, a fisherman (past president of the Izaac Walton League); and Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan dowager. They expect, as does he, that he will soon know enough facts to purge...
...operative Educator. Many an Antioch field worker last week wanted first to meet the tall man who was eagerly, proudly showing visitors around his plant. President Arthur Ernest Morgan went to Antioch first as a member of its Board of Trustees. He soon (in 1922) became president of the obscure, dying college, reorganized it completely. An engineer, he was mostly self educated. His only degree is an honorary D. Sc. from the University of Colorado. Experienced in flood control, he helped harness the Miami River after the disastrous Dayton flood of 1913. Then he turned to education, established schools...
...awarded annually to "the player who is of 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. Tudor was captain of the 1928-29 sextet, having played three successive seasons, and was graduated a year ago last June. He was killed in an automobile accident in Fall River in the summer...
...third type of ant has golden hair. On the golden hair is a substance agreeable to worker ants. Therefore the golden-haired queen may invade a brunette queen's province at will; the workers will flock to the invader; ants prefer blondes...