Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff tutelage of her aunt, Clemency Vane, and the loving devotion of her wealthy grandfather, Michael Hare. In her teens she is occupied with nothing but her social career, but the war brings a sudden change and Abigail, like "a true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless...
Captain See is no slouch of a mathematical astronomer in his own right. A graduate of American universities and a Ph.D. of Berlin, a member of all the great astronomical societies of the world, a research worker of established reputation in the very fields in which Einstein has gained his fame, he is " starred " in Cattell's American Men of Science, which means that he ranks among the 1,000 most distinguished scientists and the 50 leading astronomers in America whose work is supposed to be most important, by vote of their own colleagues. And so is Dr. Campbell...
...denounced it as one of the most fruitful causes of industrial strife during the past twelve months. As a practical politician he doubtless realizes that an "open shop " campaign has little chance of success in a rising tabor market. When business conditions are bad and the surplus of workers is great, the unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open shop" contracts which penalize the worker with discharge if he keeps his union card. But when business begins to revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities...
Sued for Divorce.-Sebastian S. Kresge, of Detroit, owner of 5 and 10 cent stores, active prohibitionist, church worker, by Mrs. Anna Harvey Kresge. Charges not made known...
...lawyer. We can rely upon a few trained experts to do our law work for us. We can not rely upon a few trained experts to do our voting for us. Every citizen, whatever his vocation,--whether, he be a lawyer, an engineer, a business man, or a manual worker,--will be a better citizen if he is well grounded in the essentials of economics. He will be a better citizen not merely because his mind is a little better trained,--that might be said of special training in any field,--but, in addition to that, because he has expert...