Word: workaday
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Nothing in the physical structure of industry, in the inventive genius of the U. S., in its plant capacity, in its ordinary workaday life, could account for a sense of hopelessness or weakness in facing it. There remained the unemployed, the ramifications of the problem they presented, doubt as to whether they could be put to work. But in ten years of depression, the U. S. had demonstrated that it possessed, as a natural resource more valuable than its mines...
...MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status was not enough; he had to know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college, he went to the horse's mouth, asked college men and women who were out in the workaday world. To 1,600 Minnesota alumni and alumnae he sent a 52-page, illustrated questionnaire entitled "Building the University of Tomorrow." It asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses, whether they were happily married, whether they spanked their children...
...Congress, working in President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician but not a brilliant executive, 71-year-old Secretary Roper contributed to the New Deal more than...
...Angeles last week celebrated the homecoming of Douglas Gorce Corrigan, who few months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
...farflung newspaper career already the envy of many a workaday reporter, Paul Gallico last week began another chapter. Back from his snuggery-workshop on the English Channel, Writer Gallico entered the employ of William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A high-priced super roving reporter, Paul Gallico, whose loyal readership followed him from the sport section of the New York News to the Saturday Evening Post, took as his assignment the Philadelphia child-murder case, described the arraignment of a 19-year-old girl defendant with true sob-stuff...