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...though Mr. Lloyd George declaimed in masterly fashion for over an hour, concluding: "There are people who are saying we will not be in a position to fulfill this pledge [to end unemployment]. Of one thing I am not in doubt?we shall be in a position to compel its fulfillment...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
...pity our children for unless they compel the recognition of their rights, . . . they will be borne down with added burdens of increased wealth in profiteers' hands to command and compound still greater interest, dividends and rent...
Significance. It is possible that stock-market speculation has increased or will increase so far as to compel a radical revision of Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...
...ALEXANDER, KING OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES, FEEL IT MY DUTY AS A SON OF THIS LAND TO TURN TO YOU, ITS PEOPLE, AND FRANKLY AND TRUTHFULLY TELL YOU WHAT IN THIS MOMENT MY CONSCIENCE AND LOVE OF THE FATHERLAND COMPEL...