Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily blast against the New Deal. Last month Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick shocked his Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions for the election of Roosevelt...
...contest's biggest thrills last week when suddenly Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, 24, revealed herself the mother of ten, eight living. Mrs. Clarke's reluctance to put her claim forward was not unnatural. Five of her offspring are children of her husband, a Toronto railroad worker from whom she separated four years ago. The others, including twins who died last year, are by "the only man I ever really loved, the man to whom I am married by nature if not by law. When we were first together we thought my divorce would come through soon, and then...
...fact in this advertisement." Most people indeed did. A box headed ''You are a stockholder in the United States. Inc." related that the country had produced three times as much wealth since the Revolution as the entire world had produced prior to 1776; that the U. S. worker's share of the national in come had risen from 38? in 1850 to 65? in 1929; that there were 44,000,000 savings accounts in the U. S. even in Depression. These and other facts, read the advertisement, reached "right down into the very roots of your...
...daughter's engagement to Bernhard," came the full-rounded radio voice of Queen Wilhelmina, "is founded on mutual affection. I am highly pleased with the excellent qualities of my future son-in-law. He has already shown he is a hard worker...
...another, married, led his gang against the gangs of other slum districts, was eventually killed when hoodlums caught him without his weapons. His story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after...