Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...
...Harvard officials explained, students there are well cared for financially, including those who attend on scholarships. The $15 monthly allotted each worker by the N. Y. A. was thought insufficient to warrant its use for the relatively few cases in which that university is providing employment...
Secretary of Labor Perkins: The Secretary of Labor is a very great woman. But Miss Perkins is a social worker-not a labor expert-and the two words are not synonymous by any means. The stress of this period has discovered, in a Democrat, an ideal Minister of Labor . . . Edward F. McGrady. It may be the fault of nobody, but the labor movement in this country is a mess...
...fashioned as the Saturday Evening Post's idea of a teacher (see p. 30) is the conception of a school janitor as a humble worker, patronized by teachers, bedeviled by pupils. In New York City a head janitor may make up to $64,500 per year, depending on his own acumen and parsimony. Instead of being paid a salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor...
...beginning of his career Liebermann was influenced by the proletarian movements that were sweeping Europe in the 'eighties. In his prints and paintings he represents the humble worker in his shop or in the fields...