Word: amishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen with stony faces and beards, listened carefully and thoughtfully applauded...
...lift the mite. Andrew seemed satisfied, said, "I think they will think for some time before they put on any more bans." He would be permitted to worship in an Amish Church but he would have no voice in the church or be admitted to communion. To the stubborn Amishmen, who frown upon court actions, God's law came before that of men. Andrew would still be under a mite of a mite...
...most other Governors went home for a well-earned rest, John Bricker motored on to Brickerville, Pa., the tiny hamlet (pop. 223) founded in 1732 by Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Bricker. There, the thrifty, devout Amishmen cheered when he plumped for free enterprise...