Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White-haired, conventional Senator Deneen, ardent Y. M. C. A. worker that he is, was appealing to the ''better element" of the state, making "law-and-order"' his prime slogan. Esposito, his friend, once ran the Bella Napoli, was reputed in his day to be as monstrous a gangster as Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. Senator Deneen stood as godfather for an Esposito child, partook of the Esposito baptismal feast, had himself photographed with the family. In March 1928, Esposito was shot down with 58 lead slugs in his head, according to Senator Deneen's count...
...after all an Englishman, did not join Mr. Ford in lambasting his countrymen. Instead, for his part, he discreetly praised the European workman, thus: "Laboring under the same conditions and receiving the same high wages the European workman is more efficient than the American, who is no miracle worker...
...added: "What is probably more significant is that during our task of adjusting wages to secure uniformity* we found it necessary to substantially increase the minimum wage at our Antwerp factory. . . . The response of the worker was almost immediate and was displayed by a reduction of the minute costs. . . . In Denmark, where we pay the highest wages in Europe, we find the lowest unit costs...
...little bantam, has a bantam rooster trademark. *The International Labor Office adjoining the League of Nations in Geneva, is preparing for Mr. Ford a report which will enable him to pay his workman in a given European country a wage sufficient to buy in that country what a Ford worker in Detroit can buy with his wage...
...They [the vegetarians] are like religious fa natics. Eating vegetables and fruits is just like a form of religion." Last week Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh of the University of Michigan's Medical College, no fanatic, gave out a statement. He related an experiment he had conducted: a laboratory worker, fed a diet of 32% lean meat for a period of six months, developed nephritis (kidney in flammation). Concluded Dr. Newburgh: "The Stefansson test was not an all-meat diet, since only 20% was muscle fibre, or lean meat. The rest was animal fat. This Arctic diet had no more...