Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister Marion, 25, is working on Fruits & Vegetables. Both sisters went to Manhattan's Art Students' League but while Grace finished her studies in Paris and Italy, Marion wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish and a great deal of sugar cane...
...Beginning Jan. 1, 1942 any worker* who retires at the age of 65 will be paid an annuity by the Government if he has earned $2,000 in wages during five or more years after 1936. If he earns $100 per month and has worked five years under the plan, he will get $17.50 a month; if he has worked 15 years, $27.50; if he has worked 25 years, $37.50; if he has worked 45 years (that cannot be before 1982), $53.75. The top figure for anyone at any time will be $85 a month. If he dies before...
Marius Votquenne, appointed Research Fellow in Surgery. Docteur dn Medicine, University of Brussels '33; Assistant in Surgery and worker in the Laboratory of Histology, University of Algeria, 1933-34; Assistant in Anatomy and worker in the Laboratory of Histology, University of Brussels, 1934-35. Home: Brussels, Belgium...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
...employes long before NRA came along. Many an envious competitor predicted that the good feeling between Endicott Johnson and its employes would end when President Johnson opposed the 30-hr. week. Last year after May Day, while Communists were parading dourly elsewhere, Mr. Johnson's workers cheered ecstatically at a gradually in his honor. Grateful, Chairman L. Johnson announced that each worker could have a three-day vacation...