Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Host and honoree at this affair was a remarkable man of 81. His Thanksgiving Day visitors saw a big, ruddy gentleman who expects people to believe that he and his workers really love each other. George F. went to work in a shoe shop when he was 13, borrowed $150,000 when he was 25 to buy into the embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory...
...Congressional critics of WPA needed a shining target to shoot at in the coming session, Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard...
Growing Pains. "I was a worker's son," says Odets, "until the age of 12." His father had sold papers, peddled salt; his mother had worked in a factory. During Clifford's childhood the family shuttled back & forth between Philadelphia-where he was born in 1906-and The Bronx, where they settled down. The father slowly rose in the world, ceased to be a worker, today is very well...
Though not a Communist, Odets believes in "some kind of Socialism." As a playwright he has dealt less with the problems of the worker than with the "evils" of the middle class. "An artist cannot be for a middle-class civilization. If he is to write creatively," Odets asserts, "he must be what Andre Malraux calls a man of the opposition: he must cry: Down with the general fraud...
...applications: cash bonus plans, stock purchase plans, semi-retirement plans, etc. Procter & Gamble's is the best known in the U. S., with 50 years of success behind it. Its employes kitty in 5% of their wages. The company matches this with a contribution of 5% of the worker's wage for the first two years, increases this to a maximum of 15% by the time the worker has served 15 years. The fund is used to purchase stock over a period of six years, after which the employe draws cash dividends. President Deupree said the plan...