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...Government that gave impetus to the 8-hour day and 6-day week for the workingman. It was the Government which told the outside employer that that is sufficient time of labor and that it is unfair to work a man longer. The Federation of Federal Employes believe that the Government should not attempt to give advice to private concerns unless it is itself a model employer. We hope to make it the model employer in this respect...
...businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what he is-a stonecutter who has become a millionaire." There was another, however, who had already started for the place. This was Nicholas Longworth, 14 years younger than Mr. Madden, but co-equal with him in 18 years' service in the House...
...that Mr. McFadden is a specialist in physical culture. He owns Physical Culture and Beautiful Womanhood, not to mention True Story, Metropolitan, Brain Power, Movie Weekly. According to advertisement, his "God-driven pen" has made millions think. So he is going to the Michigan Industrial Exposition to help the workingman and his family. He will give daily lectures on health. With him will be a troup of famous strong men to perform feats in weight-lifting and in other strong man pastimes. Then he will select America's Diana-for her beauty, for her health-and the three young...
...life Mr. Gilbreth has made a specialty of studying the workingman from a standpoint of efficiency. A bricklaying contractor for a number of years, himself, he made an intensive study of this art, with the result that the rate of bricklaying was doubled. Mr. Gilbreth has investigated almost every branch of work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade...
This evening, however, he craves a new experience. So he tries entering the Merry Grotto in workingman's clothes. He is thrown down the stairs by Ravanni, Lisenco and Mike Scolleri, a bruiser who runs the cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...