Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar-getting, but on "Mysticism to a Business Man." More and better preaching was what Mr. Sayre wanted. Parsons had propounded too much politics and social uplift, not enough mysticism, he said. What the workingman needed was an awareness of God. Said he: "If you try to talk Christianity to industrial workers they simply deny it or talk about something else. It is not that they are antagonistic, but simply that they revolve in one circle and religion in another. They do not touch. What...
Editor Says Workingman's Complaint Led to Change in Size...
...demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...
...Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...
Forty is the perilous age for a workingman. After that he is the first to suffer in a layoff, the last to regain employment. Employers are exhibiting an increasing preference for younger men, at the expense of their elders...