Word: aye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral "aye." A committee was enthusiastically delegated to gather $1,000,000 to feed, clothe, house Southern strikers, to hire Southern organizers. "We are willing to give until it hurts," said President Green, "but they [Southern strikers] must not think that immediately when a strike is called, a Northern bread-wagon...
After the speech he pretended to be a delegate, listening to resolutions as they were read, voting "Aye" with the unseen chorus. That night he sat up late reading newspapers...
...said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
...effect was almost electrical. The conference was, so to speak, stampeded and forthwith, almost as one man, the members rose to cry "aye" to the motion proposing that women of 21 should receive the vote. Irate Tories cursed...
...said, "wants no governmental price-fixing on his products and he courts the minimum of state control of his affairs. (Government control of crop surplus and government price-fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...