Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address at the public meeting of the Ethical Society tomorrow at 11 o'clock at 3 Joy Street,--just west of the State House, the Speaker, John Langdon-Davies, has been a scholar in history at Oxford, and Labor party candidate for parliament. He has given much time to worker's education. He has just published "The New Age of Faith",--a study of the question, Can science save society...
...been a social worker, a supporter of woman's rights. She is a descendant of five immigrants who came over on the Mayflower. Yet some of the New England aristocracy, not to mention the aristocracy of the South, last week felt that her ancestors must have come over in the steerage from Leningrad...
...eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...
...Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman...