Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was no official repudiation of "Take to your pulpits!," a cry which may well become an historic feature of the Presidential campaign of 1928. And there was no visible squelching of Worker Willebrandt. She promised to appear and speak again in Ohio, on Sept. 23 at Lorain. Clear-eyed, evangelical, she said: "I shall continue ... as my conscience dictates...
...drove of little elephants ornaments Mr. Good's personal office−on inkstand, bookends, paperweights His complexion remains that of a hard indoor worker. It has been organization and politics with him all summer, with only a few games of golf mixed in even on Sundays. When he does get off he goes to the Glen View Club, oldtime haunt of the late Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Harding campaign...
...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...
Married. The Right Hon. John Henry Whitley, 62, onetime (1921-28) Speaker of the British House of Commons who last month, retiring from the House, refused a peerage (TIME, July 9); and Helen Clarke, social worker; in London...
...yellow fever (TIME, May 21 et seq.). People called him a martyr to science. He left an estate of only $12,000. Last week, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced that it would award a suitable pension to the widow of Martyr Noguchi. Another distinguished yellow fever worker is Dr. Aristides Agramonte, native of Havana, Cuba. He is the sole surviving member of the heroic Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined to clear up the mystery of yellow fever. They submitted their bodies to the bite of infected mosquitoes and established beyond...