Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stunned at the extent of that reception, as you may be with the reception accorded to you here, but you will find as you proceed along the homestretch that these are but the first evidences of the feelings which all Americans long to show to you." Said the Daily Worker, bitter sheetlet of Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that...
...increased power; that in 1850, with 1.5 horsepower per farmer, nine farmers were able to feed themselves and one other man; that today, with 4.6 horsepower per farmer, one farmer is able to feed himself and three other men. But, he added, "the value of agricultural products per worker is about $2,000; the value of the manufacturer's nearly $6,000; the miner's, $3,000; the railroader's, $2,500." This is in spite of the fact that the investment in agriculture is twice that in manufacturing, four times that in railroads and ten times...
...went to Vendee to do him the reverence which a humble co-worker in the Great War must always feel for the High Commander on the battle front...
...woman who was Vice Chairman of the Democratic Convention, Miss May Kennedy, was not one of Mrs. Davis's intimates; she was a little worker who had gone into the Bronx and brought out votes for Tammany. During the same period, Mrs. Davis was on a committee which showed up the iniquities of the Republican tariff by an "exhibit." In the exhibit, mannequins ambled about dressed in imported gowns (or their equivalent) with jewels, silk stockings, slippers−a complete costume and everything price-marked. By contrast, another part of the exhibit showed what the same articles would cost...
Prof. VV. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education. He was for supporting a Third Party en masse if its platform carried the proper plank...