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...drab Polish industrial city of Lodz has a tradition of defiance dating back to the 1890s, when the city's textile workers staged violent demonstrations against the Russian czarist occupiers. Last week Lodz once again showed its rebellious spirit as 10,000 textile workers, most of them women, went on strike. Their action was a warning to the regime of Party Leader Edward Gierek, who succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka in December after bloody workers' demonstrations against higher food prices and a cut in earnings...
...none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President James Madison), or the arrogance of Thomas Reed (whose highhanded use of House rules made him a virtual czar in the 1890s). Albert would most like to emulate his longtime Southwestern neighbor, the late Sam Rayburn. The canny Texan was the kind of Speaker who always insisted that "I haven't served under anybody, but I have served with eight Presidents...
...town owes much of its character to its stable ethnic mix. South Milwaukee is an enclave of Germans, Poles and Armenians, the descendants of the families that flocked to jobs in the factories built there in the 1890s. In an era when changing opportunities frequently lure the young away from home, three or four generations of the same family often live in South Milwaukee's modest but well-kept one-and two-story homes. The town has only one bowling alley and a single movie theater (recent features: Blow-Up and Count Yorga, Vampire). In the 52 barrooms, where...
...When Cav and Pag came out in the 1890s, there was a certain honesty in creating grand opera about common peopie. To go on captivating audiences today, such operas do not need modernizing. They need the courage of their own melodramatic convictions, overwhelming the audience with old-fashioned breast beating, hair pulling and singing that soars and thrills...
What T often say is: "If the U.S. had had a minimum-wage law in the 1890s, my parents might not have been able to migrate to the U.S.. because there would have been fewer job opportunities available." If Franz Joseph had instituted a minimum-wage law, that would have reduced employment opportunities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and encouraged, not discouraged, emigration...