Word: workers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Philadelphia. With another $40,000 and Negro labor they will transform the block into a low-cost housing project for Negroes, with 1-2-3 room, air-conditioned apartments built around a central fresh air court. This community centre is to have a gymnasium, bowling alley, chapel, a social worker in charge. Work was scheduled to start this week...
Settled out of court was a suit for $50,000 brought by a Putnam, Conn. State highway worker against young (21) Manhattan Socialite Audrey ("Giddy") Gray, niece of the Duchess of Marlborough. Last July Audrey Gray knocked his two sons off their bicycles, drove on without stopping. To Wilfred Martineau Jr., 14 (left arm amputated), went $17,500; to Gerard (fractured skull...
Then he met sweet, unaffected Eugénie, who "was like the song of the nightingale. ..." A fast worker, Clisson "soon imparted to his passion a quality of force and inflexibility which belonged to him." Here a big chunk of the story is missing-probably destroyed by Napoleon for reasons of discretion rather than taste...
...November 30 a front-page Daily Worker feature read, Another Soviet clarion call for peace was made today by Joseph Stalin." The next day, December 1, the Worker's headline was, RED ARMY HURLS BACK INVADING FINNISH TROOPS, CROSSES BORDER, while the Times said, FINNS' CABINET RESIGNS AS SOVIET MOMBS CITIES; NEW GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO SEEK A TRUCE; 200 ARE KILLED. The next day a feature headline in the Worker asked, "Why did the Times censor the facts on Finland...
...December 3 the Times wrote, FINNS REPORT SOVIET DRIVE HALTED, while the Worker replied with, SOVIET CEDES KARELIA, Six days later when Worker claimed, RED ARMY SWEEPS THROUGH SHATTERED MANNERHEIM LINE, the Times observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign...