Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Also, it would establish a Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from the President in naming this Board's members. Also, it makes the relief provisions applicable to all farm produce instead of only six "basic" commodities. But-and here the fight will arise as of yore-the bill retains, as an alternative method by which the Federal Farm Board would help market the surplus, the much-debated "equalization fee"-a percentage levied upon all producers of a crop in which there is a surplus, to be spent eking out a "fair price...
...Filipino Senate and not by Governor General Stimson. To effect this, he dated his resignation ahead to July 16, when the insular Senate will be in session. Secondly, he planned to enter the Filipino legislature on a straight Independence ticket. Thirdly, he said he would establish a newspaper to fight, slug for slug, the Stimson policy of introducing U. S. capital to the islands in a large...
...longstanding fight of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to elevate their profession from a status of menial service, for which the traveling public gives condescending "tips," was lost last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to command the Pullman Co. to prohibit tipping, interpreted the porters' plea as an effort to elevate something besides the status of their profession. "A consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages...
...frail Arab tents falling one by one . . . dark masses of the kneeling camels . . . shrouded figures . . ." These things lured Gertrude Bell into desert lands and kept her prowling there, writing books on archeology, writing others on the land & people which British officers later conned furiously as they set sail to fight the Near Eastern campaigns of the World...
...British Empire Leprosy Relief Association announced that a positive cure for leprosy had been effected. Hydnocarpus oil is the new remedy. For ten concentrated years scientists have been working to extract an oil from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree that could safely be used in the fight against leprosy. The virtues of this oil have long been known, but its use was restricted because it blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could be released directly...