Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While doling out Federal aid with one hand to grape men, with another hand the Government was probing them suspiciously...
...score of years U. S. equity law has hobbled Labor organization, has hampered its strike activities. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota offered a bill to revolutionize the use of injunctions. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it as unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana, Norris of Nebraska and Elaine of Wisconsin, the A. F. of L. last week concocted a substitute bill which, if adopted, would change the whole character of labor troubles, strengthen strikes, compel employers to ground their injunction applications on legal proof instead of fears...
...Whereas under prevailing economic conditions unorganized workers are commonly helpless, it is necessary that they have full freedom of trade union organization . . . for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
...gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit is an example of departmental jealousy triumphant. . . . The beating of drums and issuance of mimeographed threats of a great Prohibition offensive will not aid the government. . . . Rum runners are not scared when Uncle Sam hollers 'Boo.'. . . The different services are fighting each other and the leaks will continue until there is real coordination and cooperation. When there is more brain work in Washington there will be less booze in Detroit-and more bootleggers in Atlanta Penitentiary...
...liked: poker, his Gila monster and alligators, practical jokes with electricity, flattery, a lamp-and-mirror arrangement by which incoming female visitors would see themselves suddenly, the color green, down-and-outers, steak and potatoes, bicycle riding, a personal letter from Russia's Lenin refusing his aid in Soviet electrification...