Word: workers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted...
...rowboat after the funeral of the last of Sweden's famed Brahe family (TIME, June 30). There was no surprise, however, among theologians. Churchmen know Archbishop Soderblom as a scholar, linguist-he speaks ten languages, has written books in German, French, English, Swedish, Dutch-and an incessant worker for Church Unity and World Peace. In 1925 in an attempt to unite at least the Protestant sects of Christianity, he helped organize the Christian Conference on Life & Work at Stockholm. In 1927 he pleaded again for Christian unity at the World Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne. Said he then...
Significance. One effect of the trial last week was to turn popular suspicion in Moscow upon the local colony of foreign diplomats. "The trial throws new light on the espionage system here," declared The Moscow Worker. "The spies are not old-school snoopers with electric torches and disguises but honored gentlemen living in mansions guarded by the Soviet police and with limousines adorned by many-colored national flags"-i.e. embassy and legation pennants...
Died. Aarvi Nurmi, 26, U. S. census worker, cousin of famed Runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland; found shot through the head near his home in Takoma Park, Md. Died...
Died. Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb, 85, first British woman to obtain M. D. and Master of Surgery degrees, pioneer medical worker for native women in India; of heart disease; in London...