Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man. That is Justice. The nation applauds efforts, through, the agencies of Government, to give a greater social security to the aged and to the unemployed, to improve health, and to create better opportunities for our young people. That, too, is Justice...
...George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State. Year after year Jock McGovern asks to have what the State pays the Royal Family readjusted in the light of their income from investments. Cried Jock...
Handsome, gentle-born Anita Whitney started life as a social worker, says she was turned to radicalism by the futility of charity as a method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court...
When the talkies came, dick made Weary Rino the old technique of manly fortitude this time was a voice. Partly successful of late as a ganglia aviator and in reles of sociological significance of Indian and Southern cotton field worker--The pathes does not capture as before. Like Pickes wealthy, he does not need to make many pictures a his leisure to visit the Printy campus necessary...
...next war will be partly my fault," said Miss Zara duPont, "because I didn't kick hard enough." An active lady of nearly seventy, the first cousin of the Wilmington munition manufacturers is a vigorous worker for peace...