Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's ursine Borah, still weak from flu, denounced the air bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...
House members were fairly polite to the Secretary. Crusty old Democrat Carter Glass produced a bluish bundle wrapped in rubber bands. "That bundle," he warned, "is German marks which once were worth $46,000 and they are not worth wiping your nose...
Lady Astor's story was simultaneously corroborated by Playwright George Bernard Shaw, also a Clivedenite,who wrote in Liberty: "You meet everybody worth meeting, rich or poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism. . . . The Astors have become the representatives of America in England; and any attack on them is in effect an attack on America. . . . Never has a more senseless fable got into the headlines...
Further, the beliefs that a $5000 income should be a student's goal, and that a job is not worth-while because it pays $20 a week show how a liberal education can miss fire. These seniors who want to measure the worth of a job, or of a career by the cash return have forgotten King Midas who proved centuries ago that wealth is no key to happiness. . . --Brown Daily Herald...
...cooks and waitresses pay the union 75 cents a month and want their money's worth. For this reason labor representatives have not stopped at a reasonable agreement. Their current demands not only ask for what amounts to a 50 percent wage increase over the 1937 level, but also attacks the University's cherished pension plan and its aversion to a closed shop. True to the history of American labor, the locals are taking a mile. Or trying...