Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...
...Thomas James Garland, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, is a shrewd, hard worker, not without a sense of humor. Born in Ireland, he has lived in Pennsylvania more than a quarter-century. His long toil in the vineyard has thinned and dried him. His diocese is wealthy...
...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years...
Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...