Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good life. It is old as Christian ethics, for basically its ethics are the same. It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new, and the Constitution of the United States; its motives are the same. . . . It seeks to cement our society, rich and poor, manual worker and brain worker, into a voluntary brotherhood of freemen, standing together, striving together, for the common good...
...rack was Franklin D. Roosevelt's Looking Forward, George W. Wickersham's Restating the Law and similar works. Passing up such dullish reading, reporters fastened their eyes on other social documents: The Working Woman in the Soviet Union, Why a Workers' Daily Press?, and outpourings like What Every Worker Should Know About NRA by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less...
This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers...
...Saratoga, after each day's races, is gambling in roadhouses like the Brook Club and the Piping Rock. Last week gambling-room proprietors expected to be allowed to run their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest, two men last week threw...
Died. Mrs. Ethel Sperry Crocker, philanthropist. War relief worker, wife of San Francisco Banker William Henry Crocker (Crocker First National Bank); after long illness; in Hillsborough, Calif...