Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authority of every one of his division heads, naming Harrison Earl Spangler as Executive Vice Chairman to run things in his future absences. Vice Chairman Spangler, short, florid Iowa lawyer and gentleman farmer, as field marshal of Party organizers, aimed to have by Election Day one personal-pressure worker (Republican Volunteer) for every 30 voters in the land. Last week, when Chairman Hamilton sallied off to Washington and Manhattan, he left behind a functioning organization, notable for the facts that its members were: 1) mostly small; 2) mostly young; 3) mostly devoted to John Hamilton...
...August 1935 the unemployed in Germany were reduced from over 6,000,000 to less than 1,750,000 by: 1) the industrial boom arising from Rearmament; 2) re-introduction of German compulsory military service; 3) enrollment of youths in the Labor Service Corps; 4) return of women factory workers to domestic employment: 5) return of peasants who held jobs in factories to the land; and 6) new public works. Britain's Counselor estimated that in decreasing the number of the wholly unemployed the German Government spread work so thin that the per capita earning of the average employed...
...plumbers, etc. Thus far jobless middle class youths have been his chief recruits, for the French bourgeoisie are beginning to think that the more or less aristocratic Croix de Fen of Col. null de La Rocque will never get anywhere. Similarly the Reds & Pinks are beginning to fear Worker Doriot as they never feared La Rocque. Last week the Communists and Socialists decided in Reims to send their Popular Front gangs bursting into the homes of Mayor Doriot's followers to give them a thrashing lesson. The Whites, led in person by Doriot who had gone to Reims...
...time he announced that he will "never" hold elections for another Greek parliament. General Metaxas said' last week that the Socialist & Communist trade unions which he has done his best to smash "will no longer be tolerated" and that the State will set up a paternal form of worker organization...
...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, onetime Y. M. C. A. worker who founded the Oxford Group, a First Century Christian Fellowship, "God is a millionaire." Missing from headlines since their vast house-party at socialite Stockbridge, Mass, last June, the popular evangelist's team of disciples recently has been touring fashionable eastern resorts preaching spiritual placidity and divine guidance. Simultaneously last week they arrived back in the headlines and at the summer headquarters of U. S. millionaires: Newport...