Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette shifted from policemen to victims. From a doctor came testimony that total casualties, aside from the dead, were 40 wounded by bullets, some 60 beaten. Seven of the ten dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment...
...Jersey's Norton is a large, brown-eyed Roman Catholic, a onetime social worker and since 1920 a wheelmare for New Jersey's Democratic Boss Frank Hague. In Congress since 1925, she has got along well with her party because "I always take the recommendation of county leaders as to the fitness of a man or woman for a job." Her formula for getting along with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts...
Just before Governor Earle withdrew martial law, a Johnstown "Citizens' Committee" & a "Steel Workers Committee" inserted in some 40 newspapers a full-page advertisement captioned WE PROTEST. Relating that the closing of the Bethlehem plant was costing the community $500,000 in weekly payrolls, the advertisement thundered: "It is no part of the functions of American Government to force-or to permit anyone else to force-the individual worker into surrendering his Constitutional rights. . . . If this can happen in Johnstown it can happen anywhere else...
...University in Peiping, until last fortnight head of the philosophy department at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. Monsignor O'Toole and the two younger priests patterned their Alliance after a group in Manhattan led by Dorothy Day, onetime Socialist, and Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical Catholics Day & Maurin maintain a House of Hospitality and an Easton, Pa. farm commune for Catholic proletarians. What they call "the dynamite of Catholic teaching" and submit as an alternative to Communism is contained in the labor encyclicals of Popes...
...constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker who must show the way." Less subliminal than that of transition (see p. 68), his program emphasizes nimbleness, freshness and precision. Readers will find a high batting average in New Directions' inexpensive output for its first season...