Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, he was in the Morgan offices when a bomb explosion rocked the building in 1920, was gashed by flying glass. At No. 1060 Fifth Avenue he owned one of the world's largest private apartments...
...edifice as one could imagine. Professor Rice was not accused of whispering in this chapel, but because of his atheistic ideas refused to enter it. even in his cap and gown in the senior processional, as it is customary for each professor to do. And of course, like blind sheep, his followers upheld him in his theory and throughout the year likewise refused to enter it even on a rare occasion when its donor was present...
...stepped Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins. She had to be heard. The law had set up a special Labor Board (see p. 16) especially to advise I. R. A., and Madam Perkins was its head. She & Board were determined to prevent employers from taking advantage of employes in the blind haste to get the recovery program going...
...defense of the nation, suppression of crime, regulation of monopolies, maintenance of public health and care of the indigent and helpless. But in America the State is now performing these normal functions so very badly that even if it were right in principle to extend its functions, a totally blind man could see that the time is not yet ripe for such extension. . . . The government should content itself in the field of industry with acting as a check to private industry's exploitation and greed...
...Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five days. On the sixth day he took two ouarit beans. Soon after, he swears, he became unconscious, remained that way for some days. When he regained consciousness, he was stone blind and "swelled up like a dead pig." His skin was an itching, burning rash. For two months he stayed in that condition. Then his sight returned and he began to improve. But, to his shame as a good Haitian, he was entirely white, not the sallow white of the albino...