Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect up to 50% of what he earned when last employed. The average dole for an unemployed single man is seven francs a day (46?). If he is married he can collect...
...century ago, he held an Indianapolis pastorate at 27, became president of that city's University in 1899 and of pious Kentucky University two years later. Not until he took his Kansas City pastorate in 1907 was Dr. Jenkins completely free and happy. A Y. M. C. A. worker and War correspondent for the Kansas City Star, editor and publisher of the Post in 1919-21, he has three sons in journalism: Burris Jr., literate Harvardman, interpreter of the late great Thomas Fferdy and now sports cartoonist for the New York Journal; Paul, adman, and Logan, newsman...
...operative-made furniture, rugs, tools, quilts, etc. Before he left the White House the President had not intended to make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium stage he had been so carried away by what he called "my pet children" that he had spent half an hour, leaning over the back of a chair and talking spontaneously. Though the White House had no text of his informal words, alert newshawks...
...annual report, President Conant made the statement that "a satisfactory balance must be struck between teaching and research," few persons thought that this was anything more than the traditional reference to the traditional, but long-forgotten ideal of combining in one man the brilliant lecturer and the studious laboratory worker. Apparently this reference was more than a meaningless formality, for today the President has acted...
...contributions from Fundamentalists and send out Fundamentalist missionaries to preach God's own Fundamentals to black, brown and yellow men in far corners of the earth. In Philadelphia last October they set up the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. And for its general secretary and most active worker they chose no grizzled Presbyterian die-hard but a keen, quick-smiling young missionary named Charles J. Woodbridge...