Word: tradesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the North Atlantic. They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric...
...When in Manhattan a postman handed Bonus bonds through the securities windows of sedate J. P. Morgan & Co. to a group of joyous employes, a frosty executive barked: "We can't have all this uproar here," dispatched the postman to the tradesman's entrance...
...kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will part with "not an inch" of Ethiopian soil. If these Imperial activities resemble a Semitic tradesman's strident, righteous protestations and simultaneous readiness to compromise, they are not the Man of the Year's fault but aspects of his God-given character...
...raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...