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...child, a whole Hindenburg would still know how to count armies, and that small armies cannot throw mud at big armies without a disastrous fight. But this much at least can be said: IIorr von Hindenburg has disintegrated sadly, or he is an immortal villian, insincere and stupid to boot. Until his brain is weighed and his letters published, the dilemma must remain...
...sponsored strikes throughout the land. Completely forgotten was last summer's truce to which Mr. Green himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken or threatened to: 1) force better codes at Washington as in the cases of the silk industry at Paterson, N. J. and the boot & shoe industry at Brockton, Mass.; 2) gain union recognition as in the case of 100,000 New York City transit workers; 3) revenge NRA violations as in the case of light & power employes. Senator Wagner's National Labor Board could not settle old strikes as fast as new ones cropped...
...When the Arabian Nights year of 1929 was making millionaires out of boot-blacks, I had lost my reputation, my wife, my child, my home and my fortune and was skating on the thin edge of personal bankruptcy. All I had left was my mother." In a book called The Voice of Young America, he attacked U. S. business methods, advocated a better distribution of wealth. "It's the same old story. ... I myself had lain with trouble. That is why I changed...
...bricks of Boston smile with a certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul...
...foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running at from 65% to 91% of capacity, paper mills 88%, cotton mills 70%, rayon factories 65%, boot & shoe industry 60% and chemical production...