Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes is 65. There is no Constitutional age limit for the Presidency above 35 years. Mr. Hughes expressed only his own opinion of himself...
Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government...
...they include the payment of fair wages for efficient services; steady, uninterrupted employment; safeguarding of their lives and health; good physical working conditions; provision for them to lay up savings and to become partners in the business through stock ownership; and finally, some guarantee of financial independence in old age...
...mechanical engineers of middle age, Mr. Schwab's doctrines had a further significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades...
...musical circles during 150, years before his birth, J. S. Bach was the first great evolutionary composer of the family. Serious, systematic, rigid in form, and strictly classical in his compositions, with a profound religious faith. Bach was the greatest master who ever wrote polyphonic music. Although his age was a somewhat mechanical one, we find in Bach a great master of deep expression, often touching the romantic...