Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heartrending tour. In Melfi, soldiers and workmen had been working like mad trying to extricate pretty 20-year-old Giuseppina Bocheppi, pinned under a building, starving but still alive, moaning for help. Just as the royal car entered the village another wall collapsed, killed Giuseppina and one of her rescuers. King Vittorio Emanuele, who had stood helplessly wringing his hands before a similar scene in another village an hour before, burst into tears...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...
Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...
Into the great entrance hall of the White House last week tramped overalled workmen who began to bang and hammer on the left wall. Coming out of his cubby-hole office off the hall, Irwin...
Hoover, chief White House usher, super vised the work, offered suggestions. From the right wall across the hall a luminous Calvin Coolidge in oils eyed the proceed ings coldly. When hooks were imbedded in the left wall, a large framed picture was swung up into position. The workmen went away. Usher Hoover returned to his office. The next time President Hoover passed through the hall he noticed that an official portrait of Warren Gamaliel Harding had been hung...