Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good old Mac eventually appeared, smiling, hair tousled. Later it was announced that Finance Expert Snowden was to be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Union Worker Thomas was to receive the medieval title of Lord Privy Seal, to be charged with the most important of Labor's problems: solving unemployment...
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
Fletcher Sims Brockman, Y.M.C.A. worker LL.D...
...rooms and who was untiring in her devotion to the work, was made president in 1882. Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management of the annex property...
...scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred by a woman striker seriously injured...