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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discriminatory or aimed at the American consumer, for the British consumer all over the world pays just as much as the American, and incidentally, seems to be objecting to doing so. "In these circumstances I hope you will agree with me that the words extortion, holdups, gouging, etc., which have been frequently used in this connection, are, to put it mildly, as Mark Twain said of the reports of his own death, perhaps a trifle exaggerated. If, to quote an old English proverb: 'Soft words butter no parsnips,' neither are hard words milch cows from which we extract...
...women teachers, lawyers, salesclerks, office workers, factory workers., Government employes, representatives of the American Federation of Labor, of the International Typographical Union, of the Boot and Shoe Worker's Union, of the United Garment Workers, of the United Textile Workers, of the Women's Trade Union League, etc., etc...
...Party. This group advocates an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the U. S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction"-which among other things would invalidate the legal restrictions on hours of work, the minimum wage, etc., for women unless the restrictions were made to apply to both men and women. The Party contends that the type of special legislation raising the standards for employment of women really tends to injure women in industry-put them out of jobs, hinder their promotion, etc. The greater part of the delegates...
Secretary Drummond replied vaguely but courteously to M. Tchitcherin, bided the League's time. He despatched invitations to League states and to the U. S., Germany, Turkey, etc., requesting them to send representatives to a League of Nations Passport Conference to be held at Geneva on May 12. He benignly countenanced the formation by four of his U. S. subordinates of "The League of Nations Post of the American Legion, which is to link the greatest peace agency in the world with one of the greatest of fighting-veteran agencies." He helped to make comfortable twelve famed international lawyers...
...casts include many of the finest Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite bas-reliefs and other monuments in the museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Constantinople; likewise books, seals, seal impressions, weights, statuettes, etc., in the same museums...