Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier next replied to Leftist charges that his partial abrogation of the 40-Hour Week Law to speed Rearmament after Munich was against the interests of the working class. He cried: "What is this absurd legend which seeks to make believe that a call to work is merely Fascist ideology? What is the meaning of this crusade against the Government which boomerangs against France? . . . We say there is no more imperious national duty than to produce more and better goods! When I ask a vigorous effort, I ask it of all Frenchmen, not only the working class! I will...
Some 41% ( of the Chilean people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...have entered upon a grim winter of discontent," Professor Laski said. "The power of reason to make itself heard is of necessity a declining power. I know of now case where a threatened class has abdicated from power...
...most charming moods, chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank. And off to Cambridge--clank, clank. Vag glows. Even...
When Fradd first arrived on the scene only 20 undergraduates in each class could be judged perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts...