Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government has just established a minimum day wage effective throughout Mexico! I appeal for universal support of this minimum wage to restore Prosperity. . . . The theory of starvation wages and of overworked labor has now been scrapped in Mexico! The workman must be able to supply himself and his family not only with material necessities but also with honest pleasures and spiritual necessities." The new minimum wage, scheduled to provide Mexico's working class with such boons: 1½ pesos...
...answered, "I think is is just a rumor like other rumors and without any foundation. Besides, had foreign bankers meant to keep German workers subjugated by financing the Hitler Revolution, this would indeed betray an extremely poor judgment. Hitler's aim in by no means to subjugate the German workman, but to lift him to his proper-position within the larger community of the German people. Hitler feels himself personally much nearer to the German workman and peasant than to any other part of the German people. He is even quite often called not Reichskanzler, Chancellor of the Reich...
...workman's clothes looking a bit like Charles Augustus Lindbergh without a shave walked out of Moscow's Kremlin one day last month, across vasty Red Square and stopped at a line of common folk waiting outside a State store. He asked the man at the end of the line, "What are you waiting to buy, Comrade...
...year-old, Equipoise, sired by Pennant out of Swinging, was a scrawny, excitable horse, brilliant but undependable. He threw his jockey, Sonny Workman, who rode him last week, in his first start. He fell in the Pimlico Futurity. The next season, after being a winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, he ran badly in the Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world...
...Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full of roses, pretty Miss Cora Stanton Jahncke smashed a bottle of Mississippi water across the retreating bow, declaiming...