Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was a big one for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, better known as I. L. G. W. U. The third edition of Pins and Needles, its famed home-talent satire, opened on Broadway. The rich, well-run union donated $235,000 to refugee aid. And I. L. G. W. U.'s executive committee tossed off a resolution on labor peace. If things go well for labor in the next few months, I. L. G. W. U.'s resolution may be called an important item in labor history. If things go badly...
...signed up as an officer in the British Army, thus automatically renouncing the U. S. citizenship of the son of the U. S.'s most rambunctious Presidential citizen. Said he to U. S. reporters: "The sooner the war is over, the better for you and the better...
...Legislature had not met, rich Ohio was still desperate. To a group of labor leaders, deeply conservative Republican Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland, suggested in a discouraged mood: "Labor can go to the Governor independently of the city. You can give him the devil far better than...
Back to the U. S. with greater devotion than ever hurried Fritz Kuhn. Nobody knew better than he what a tough job he was in for. Those Jews were everywhere. Recruits came, but there was no stampede to jump on the Bundwagon. And everywhere the Gottverdammt Jews made trouble: Fritz was arrested for traffic violations, for drunkenness; attacks in the courts, in the press, in the seat of the pants...
...British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Mich...