Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...craft, into one big union (TIME, July 20 et ante). Composed of industrial unions, C. I. O. is dedicated to extending this form of labor organization to absorb the greater part of the U. S. working class. With this objective, the 13 A. F. of L. Councilmen, whose livelihood depends on the autonomy and independence of some 100 traditional craft unions, obviously could not compromise. So the next business before the Council was to hear evidence justifying the suspension of the C. I. O. unions...
...Government. . . . What rights would the dentist be asked to surrender or what compromises would he be asked to make in return for the guaranteed income, which could be but small? . . . The members of our profession need to make no compromise with their conscience in order to gain a livelihood. .. . We need not sell out to political powers...
...eloped at 17 with a carnival man. In New York he made a living sefling gowns and lingerie, then took to opium and retired. Meantime a girl she knew had begun bringing men to her apartment. Soon Dorothy Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually $2 to $4. She kept a running total of each one's earnings by punching neat green cards. "If a customer paid $2," she explained...
Moldy Chestnuts Sirs: In TIME, July 15, relative to the political tempest in a teapot in the Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions...
...Herbert Hoover paid them their first Presidential visit in 1931. Following a brief inspection. President Hoover publicly labeled them "a poorhouse." Not bothering to mention the fact that U. S. Prohibition had ruined the Islanders by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum, the President left the three little Virgins to Civil Governor Pearson whom he had just appointed, sailed back to bigger headaches in Washington...