Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place Pius XI is not only for private property but urged that each workman should acquire a "modest fortune" and that social steps should be taken to ensure this, as well as to stamp out unemployment, "a dreadful scourge...
...fellow factory employes by sitting grimly on a factory chimney for 129 hours, disregarding all the blandishments of the Tokyo Police Force to coax him down (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week 200 employes of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works went out on strike because of the discharge of a fellow workman. The dyers and weavers remembered the November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved when a sympathetic, bespectacled young man from the Amalgamated Printers...
Confessing to eleven murders, to seven attempted murders, to a grand total of nearly 100 crimes, Peter Kuerten, a workman aged 47, sat in a neat blue serge suit, in the dock at Düsseldorf last week. A year and a half ago all Germany shuddered at the gruesome exploits of the "Düssel-dorf Murderer." Until he was jailed Düsseldorf children went to school in busses guarded by policemen with pistols (TIME, Jan. 13, June...
...works this way: Side by side stand a state trust store and a state Nep store. A workman with a card entitling him to buy a pair of shoes can get them at the state trust store by standing in line all day, or if the store has no shoes by waiting several weeks until shoes arrive. At the state Nep store, however, anyone can buy a pair of shoes instantly, with or without a card, but at a very high price...
...Next day Workman Woods paid a long visit to a barber shop, then inspected his letters. Said he: "A lot of them have been from women who want to know where they can buy tickets on the race next year. . . . There are a whole lot more women after that information than men." Also after lottery information were Buffalo police who arrested one William H. Paschal, charged him with being chief agent for the quick distribution of $50,000 worth of tickets in the "Kentucky Derby sweepstakes...