Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in 1894. Bernard Shaw justified Mrs. Warren's Profession by blaming it on the sweatshop wages which capitalism paid the female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the...
Russia's V. M. Zonov, while pointing-out that the "progressive social legislation" in the Soviet Union had solved the problem of prostitution, nevertheless supported the unamended article, to help alleviate, in other countries, an evil "from, which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis...
As a very young man, demobilized after World War I (he faked a birth certificate to join up at 15), Francis Marion Grandstaff could not decide whether to follow his father's profession of medicine or his childhood inclination to music. He solved his dilemma by taking up crime...
Thus fortified, he proceeds to his job of setting Argentina's cultural tone. Minister Ivanissevich (a surgeon by profession, a guitarist and poet by avocation) also heads a secretariat of culture which has inquired in the past year into such matters as anti-religious sentiment in comic strips, the...
But the teachers Jesse met, with their ramshackle schools and pitiful salaries, won his respect. There were old Ethel Henthorne who worked for years in her spare time to get a college degree and finally got it at 70; poor Ann Bush who was forever getting a beating from her...