Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual to the status of a machine. Early vocational training is going to limit the range of the individual's knowledge and confine it to a field entered upon before he had any mature conception of the direction of his tastes and talents. The result will be a worker, efficient in his province but lacking in the resources of a general education...
Wang Lung was the poor son of a poor farmer of Anhwei. When he married a slave girl from the rich house of Hwang he hoped his lot would improve, and it did. Olan was as good a wife as he could have picked: silent, a hard and willing worker, a sturdy producer of children. Fortune smiled on Wang Lung, he bought more land. Then came a year of famine. With himself and his family nearly dead of starvation, Wang Lung decided to go south. In Kiangsu they lived like beggars, but they lived...
Everybody admitted John Durken was a good man, a good farmer, had done a lot for the little rural community of Midland; but nobody liked him. He was closemouthed, closefisted, a hard worker, a hard master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain elevator; but Midland did not want to be bettered, was not really sorry when one day the express train killed John Durken. Son Bruce came back from his Methodist college to be Midland's pastor. Better educated, more articulate a fanatic than his father, he raised more hell in Midland...
...appearing for injured railroad workmen. There is a vast difference between the shyster type, who use tricky methods, and the high type of lawyers (and they are too few) who are satisfied to let the lucrative corporation practice go by the boards and fight for justice to the worker...
Suavely the Mayor replied: "I'll tell you boys nobody is more in sympathy with you than the Mayor and Council of Reading. We're no novices. We know what Capitalism does to the workers and hope that Capitalism will be overthrown. . . . We've kept men on we'd ordinarily lay off. I've organized Unemployment relief and it's doing a darned good job. But . . . you don't know the law, that's all. How can we tax the rich? If I could, I would. . . . Show me a starving worker...