Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Church of Canada (Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian) is a huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder...
...once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro...
Gross is one of the fastest men in college hockey, while Hamlen is as good a team-worker as has graced a Harvard combination in some years. In Johnny Chase, however, is the burden of the Crimson attack concentrated. Chase is easily the most brilliant performer on this year's team, and according to the information which has trickled out of the H. A. A. regarding the afternoon practices at the Arena. Chase is a much improved player over last winter. And last year, he was the regular center on the strong Harvard line...
...Synthesizer of acetone and ammonia, worker on liquid air, analyzer of the heat-conductivity of metals...
...convention at Omaha, has come to the realization that its members are gradually being admitted into the fellowship of respectable citizens. In order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand, is "a local fixture in almost every instance" and usually is intensely reluctant to perform any sort of labor...