Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother spread consternation through the backwoods by announcing that she was about to have a baby. Stumped by the legal difficulties of adopting one, she bought a life-sized doll, swaddled it heavily, paraded it along the roads. She convinced a railway worker named Milton Trites that it was his. After that he bought the Bannisters groceries, the doll a crib. Mrs. Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close...
...what was behind these labor disorders, opinions ranged from the Communist Daily Worker's charge that it was a monstrous conspiracy of Federal officials and shipowners to crush maritime labor, to the Hearstpaper belief that a great Communist plot was on foot to destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. John Putzer, 41-year-old wife of a WPA worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
...Sequoia National Park, CCC Worker Ray Williams, working for $36 a month, opened his pay envelope and found a check for $250,000.22. Explained relief officials: "Bookkeeping error...
When Depression threatened the Metropolitan she undertook another role, became chairman of the tin-cup campaign for which she was roundly publicized as "the savior of the opera." As an active worker for the Opera Guild she has continued to drum up trade for the Metropolitan. Last spring as a reward for all her efforts she was appointed to the Metropolitan's board of directors, made a member of the advisory management committee, both of which positions she intends to retain...