Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Jersey arranged to have Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anent Prohibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: "[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. For many years he has been cooped up in an office, away from the workingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn't know what he's talking about. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18th Amendment is lost, the people will battle...
...What the American workingman wants is work, not insurance," was Green's reply to the suggestion that some system of insurance might be a solution for unemployment. In a recent speech made in Boston, Green put the problem of the idle workers up to the employers and public officers of the United States. A division of labor which will guarantee the laborer steady work even if it is occasionally part-time employment is what the Federation hopes to put into effect in place of the present system that supplies full-time work at irregular intervals with complete lay-offs...
...anxious Britons, expecting birth news from day to day, the child seemed long in coming. The Duchess of York's own 30th birthday, heralded by soothsayers as the probable moment, dawned uneventfully. Highly embarrassed, perspiring profusely, little John Robert Clynes who began life humbly in a workingman's cottage and is now Home Secretary of His Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible...