Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through an old age State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised his record on labor legislation. The Governor is now engaged in a stiff upping of income taxes to supply funds for Unemployment relief...
England's dole is a medicine for the dis ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
Marco Vatasso, a young lawyer from Turin, presented his student pass at the Vatican Library last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche...
Mural Painter Rivera no longer works for $4 a day, but he holds to most of his old ideas. He believes that there is no such thing as inspiration, that a painter is a workman like any other, that he should work so many hours a day. contract for so many square feet of art a week. Coming to New York last month he explained all this, said that he had no idea what he was going to paint for his exhibition but knew that it would be as fine as anything he had done and added that...
...first time in the history of the Ames Competition between the Law School clubs a case will come up on Workman's Compensation when the Lowell and Chafee clubs compete in the qualifying round for the second-year mens championship in Austin North on December...