Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of Mr. Ford's interest in the welfare of the individual worker and his conservative but same attitude upon current problems, it is not wild to suggest that if he were to run on an independent ticket for President in 1940, he would have a large following. But whether he likes it or not, the as the stick of government has grown. As taxes promise to play a leading role in industry, so is labor determined to have its say. H. V. Kaltenborn's prophecy last night in Phillips Brooks House that there will be five years cannot...
...custom, is called a "fellowship." Director Edward Ray Weidlein of the Institute then hires one or more expert "fellows," tells them to get to work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker is apt to get a good job with the manufacturer who paid the bills. If the worker is also clever he can get the University of Pittsburgh...
...hard worker and able organizer of "extensions" of the Father's "heavens," she was long pointed to as the prime "sample and example" of his powers. Last week Faithful Mary seized upon Father Divine's disappearance as an excuse to announce what she said she had lately come to realize: that Father Divine "ain't God. He's just a damned man. He ain't no more God than you're God." Her renunciation, she said, had been expedited by his demands that she turn over to him all the property held...
Donald Wakefield Smith, 38 and the Board "baby," is a roly-poly, volatile, sharp-tongued onetime Philadelphia lawyer who would rather not be reminded that he looks like Herbert Hoover when he smiles. Boardman Smith knows how workers feel because his father was once a steel-worker and he himself worked in the mills to earn his way through Coraopolis, Pa. high school. As a lawyer, he specialized in labor and immigration cases...
...Manifestly, such a procedure carries with it the implications of the greatest possible danger. It places the productivity of industry at the mercy of a labor leadership, responsible and accountable to neither the law nor the workers, and restricted solely by its own desires and ambitions. The dangers of such a centralized control of the American worker are obvious. Its political implications challenge democracy. ... To the extent that it succeeds, it means the economic and political slavery of the worker, and an important step toward an economic dictatorship...