Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ministers, who had congregated in Manhattan from all parts of the U. S., next visited the headquarters of the Communist party where they heard Harry W. Wicks, an editor of The Daily Worker making a speech. First he assailed preachers for their failure to take an active interest in labor problems; then he began to speak about famed clergyman John Roach Straton: "He is the most palpable ignoramus in the U. S.!" said H. W. Wycks. Then he added, "Fortunately, there are not many like him." The 40 ministers said, "Thank God for that...
Married. Miss Parmelia Pryor of Greenwich, Conn., to Joseph Verner Reed of Denver, wealthy worker on the Chattanooga Times; in Greenwich, Conn...
...immaculate, he had made sure that the head of the company in which he was about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known, not only as an able millionaire, but also as a philanthropist, a reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...
College women and colored women, trained nurses and Jewesses, married ladies with their maiden names and Mormon ladies without; needleworkers, peace workers, young Christian women workers, women voters, women mutual-improvers, Christian temperance women, clubwomen, business women, professional women, housewives, "home girls" and a few common everyday women?representatives, in short, of the 34 women's organizations for which the National Council of Women aims to be a guide and interpreter, met last week in Manhattan. President Valeria H. Parker, a doctor of medicine, sex-hygienist and flood relief worker, presided over them all and was reelected...
Assaults. Although more than 700 Jews and Hungarians were reputedly assaulted, last week, the international press did not seriously notice the story until a U. S. citizen, Gottfried Keller, said to be a Y. M. C. A. worker was reported lying unconscious at a hospital in Oradia Mare...