Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...
Organized demands for greater immigration restriction, and elimination of private, profit-seeking insurance companies from the labor field, were suggested at Miami as protections for workingmen over...
Every night last week groups of workingmen, mostly Italians, stood at the corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke...
...complications; in Manhattan. The Mills millions were founded by Darius Ogden Mills, "Forty-Niner" and California banker. His son, Ogden Mills, was born in Sacramento, often revisited California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the late Ambassador to Great Britain...
...manufacturing departments, as well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile Henry Ford, announcing jobs for 30,000 more men in his Detroit plants,* declared himself in favor of a different method of assuring leisure to workingmen. His employes, drawing a minimum wage of $5 a day, will work only five days a week, be laid off two. Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds of 25,000 and more swarmed last week...