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...Douglas Hogg: ". . . The General Strike was illegal and the Government has therefore made the first axiom of this bill that no one must suffer for refusing to participate in a second general strike. . . . Two: intimidation of non-strikers was illegal and must be prevented...
...Douglas Hogg (angry, flushed): ". . . Third axiom: the law must protect individual workers from compulsion to contribute to a political fund...
...civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium at the London Zoo, a stalwart oyster champion, called attention to the following evolutionary axiom: "The higher the form of life an animal has, the more keenly it suffers...
...boots and dresses and draperies will pay the rent; and if such staples are less in demand one month than another, the fripperies, on the other hand, may well serve to keep the woll from the owner's Italio-Greco-Romanesque facade. The Advocate has profited by by this axiom of the trade, and in the last two years has built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest that insures a certain variety to any issue, whatever the quality of the accidental "contributions" may be. As your reviewer galloped through the April...
...existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...