Word: workmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Michigan, with 100,000, preparations went on for celebration of Finnish Independence Day this week, and Finns were taking up "raianturva kerays" for Finnish aid. Raianturva kerays means frontier defense canvas, began when Finnish workmen voluntarily gave up vacations to work on forts on the Russian frontier...
...turkey talk seemed a little nearer. Imminent was 1939's Thanksgiving I, and a striking workman is just as fond of turkey dressing as any time-card puncher. Labor Department Trouble Shooter James F. Dewey perked up, indicated the strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...
While New York Police Commissioner Valentine sent a special detective to investigate the charge against Detective Broderick, and Navy Yard officials announced calmly that they knew they had Communists among their 9,300 workmen, but watched them carefully, main interest in the Communist Party centred on Comrade Malkin's denunciation of Comrade Charles Dirba...
...firm anti-Bolshevism. In August of this year Baron Mannerheim attended the luncheon given by Governor of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti for vacationing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. whose "purely social" visit to Helsinki included a tour of Finnish cooperative stores and modernistic workmen's flats...
...corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer a motor giant which in the year just past had sold $516,830,333 worth of automobiles, had given employment to 59,000 workmen...