Word: workers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Representative Snell, potent chairman of the potent Rules Committee, rewrote the Fish resolution, put his own name on it. To be investigated were "Communist propaganda in the U. S. . . . The Communist party of the U. S. and all affiliated organizations . . . the Communist International, the Amtorg Trading Corp., The Daily Worker and all groups or individuals who . . . advise, teach or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the U. S. or attempt to undermine our Republican form of government...
...citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood...
...treatments," scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying "I vunder vat is der trouble." Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker's badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying "Dr." Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto Fichl became worried, visited a reputable dentist...
...leisurely fashion will he journey on his donkey over the path once hoofed by the famous metal-worker, Paul Revere, pointing out on the way the common of Lexington and the minute man (not a railroad train) there standing guard. Wandering on to Concord--what an appropriate name that is for the home of our big shindig--he will elucidate to the assembled Vagabonds the story of the shot heard round the world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...