Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 29, word-pictures a ''plump Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis socialite and social worker." To any discerning person the accompanying photographic version by Pictures Inc. is damaging to your efforts...
Similar was the case in 1934. when NRA sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...
Editor Page was more amused than angry. The Forum, however, having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch...
...radio; mass production, mass distribution. . . . Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. . . . "There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small businessmen and merchants. . . . They were no more free than the worker or the farmer "It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. . . . "The hours men and women worked, the wages...
...self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. . . . The worker has been returned. . . . The American businessman has been returned. . . . Our youth has been returned...