Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of unemployment. Mr. Green is a conservative labor leader not given to dramatic exaggeration. What he said caused Senators to sit up and pay sharp attention. A. F. of L. statistics: 3,700,000 jobless in February; a billion-dollar wage loss since Jan. 1; one worker out of every four looking for a job. Declared Mr. Green...
...John Kristopek, middleaged, $25-a-week worker in a raybestos factory at Passaic, N. J., who had been buying tickets in lotteries, raffles, baseball pools all his life, and Angelina and Sophie Jobe, waitresses in the Hollywood Coffee Shop on Second Avenue, Manhattan: $23,130 and $12,000 respectively in the Grand National sweepstakes...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...
...South American Saints include: St. Rose of Lima, Peru, first all American saint. Patroness of South America (1586-1617); St. Francis Solano. also of Lima ("The Wonder Worker of the New World"); St. Peter Claver (baptized 300,000 South American Negroes); St. Toribio (Archbishop of Lima...
...Adrian, Mich., a queen bee crawled into the honeycomb radiator of Clifford Poll's automobile. Presently a flock of worker bees came after the queen bee, also crawled into the radiator. Clifford Poll pried the queen bee loose with a screw driver, made her fly away. Presently, the workers crawled out of the radiator, buzzed after their queen...