Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This he proposed to get by forcing backward French employers to run their factories longer hours, which means forcing French workmen to work up to 50 hours per week in some cases, and M. Reynaud's decrees provided stern penalties for recalcitrant employers, employes, and for "agitators" fines, jail...
Meantime, along Roaring Brook Road in rural Chappaqua, N. Y., workmen are completing a big, red brick building that is already beginning to look a good deal like a village high school. Here all Digest clippers & snippers will soon move from their Pleasantville offices...
...Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience is too far away to see any of the sweat and suffering and sorrow that went into the canal. Instead, Tyrone Power mopes about Europe as Loretta Young becomes the Empress Eugenie...
...four years Hugo Stinnes made $100,000,000, employed 700,000 workmen, sat on 60 boards of directors, had an interest in 1,533 companies, became Europe's biggest financier by 1921. He died in 1924. A year later his sons were bankrupt, his empire scattered, his family embittered...
...nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff has been moved elsewhere--to new a quarters eastward, but still "on the Avenue." Workmen are now changing and rebuilding the front of the old place into something gaudy and shiny. And the warm solemnity of Max Keezer is gone from the Square...