Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were being fairly treated and that wages and working conditions were satisfactory. At the same time, another group of employees, led by union leaders, announced that "a closed shop was essential to protect the interest of employees." Measures adopted by this latter group, included the blockade of trucks under contract to deliver A and P goods, the agitation against employees, who desired to return to their jobs, some picketing and violence with the chance that affairs may take a more serious turn...
...engineers by the time the smoke of litigation cleared. Nevertheless no one denied that R. C. A. Photophone and Western Electric's Electrical Research Products were holding conferences behind locked doors, or that the latter found it necessary to reassure exhibitors that they would be protected according to contract from having to pay damages or that Mr. Fox was making more commotion within the cinema industry than it had experienced in many a year...
...FIRST prerequisite "the virtues of honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold (even if the gold standard IS ONLY psychological), to deny the obligation of contract, to tax the poor for their bread and meat, to assert in an inauguration speech that the Federal, State, and local tax burdens must be reduced, and then to advocate legislation which has had the exact opposite effect...
...eloquence and apparent cogency have always carried a multitude with it, if only for a time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions...
...Contract pressing ruins clothes. Every time your suit is pressed, it soaks in the dirt, shrinks the cloth, and rubs off the nap. G. M. Brown, Boylston Street, opposite the P. O. Building, has a ticket arrangement, six pieces pressed for $1.00--whenever they need...