Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Former Labor Safeguardian James Miller, once director of the Cleveland regional office, testified that the official reason given for his removal was that he attended a Manhattan dinner given by an attorney who had cases pending before him. The real reason, said he: Because he exclaimed "Nuts!" when told by...
From the testimony emerged the picture of the Board's headaches with its own employes-one too zealous, another with a weakness for drink, good men in the wrong positions, some suspicious of their fellow employes, some mixed in obscure political doings, some incompetent but devoted, some clever but...
In 1880, around a tract of land which he had bought in northeastern Tennessee, Utopia-hunting Tom Hughes founded a colony. Invited to join were the younger sons of English gentlemen, who were barred by tradition from inheritance, by custom from working for their living. The colony was named Rugby...
For three years after its founder deserted, the Tennessee Utopia lasted. Then typhoid fever, the rigors of manual labor, and an alien soil thinned the colonists' ranks. Only a handful stayed, and Rugby crumbled away into sleepy decadence while the Tennessee pines sprouted on the cricket field, hid the...
Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until...