Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which any honest person should object to. It is the taxing of the bread and meat of the poor that I object to; it is the encouragement given by the Federal Government to the states and local governments to increase expenditure that I object to, because it is the worker who; in the end, must pay. Much of this legislation to relieve debtors is for the sake of Big Business which is up to its neck in debt. The widows and orphans and laborers and small businessmen and professional men aren't yet in debt. They still have some savings...
...left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
Ward, son of a Ford factory worker, an A student in political science who is even more famed as a trackman than footballer, sat calmly in a radio booth, watched his teammates defeat the Southerners...
...least he does not try to shake him off or even notice him, because this whole business of Mayor Curley being the Massachusetts Roosevelt man is very embarrassing to President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt is a politician; so he tries to make the ward-boss type of political worker think he likes Curley and at the same time tries to keep men like Professor Taussig thinking he has not forgotten his sense of honesty and political efficiency amid his efforts to build up party solidarity. Sometimes it looks as if Mr. Roosevelt just simply does not know where he stands...
...ranging from $1,800,000 to $2,700,000 for welfare and missionary work. A strong faction favored a low budget and reduced work. But in his opening sermon Presiding Bishop Perry forthrightly aligned himself with the mission cause and Dr. Franklin, a onetime banker and Wartime Liberty Loan worker, startled General Convention by accusing Episcopal parishes of holding out on missionary money - an accusation first publicly made last spring by Rev. C. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge (TIME, March 12). Pointing out that the National Council gets only 4½% out of each dollar contributed for all church purposes...