Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas under prevailing economic conditions unorganized workers are commonly helpless, it is necessary that they have full freedom of trade union organization . . . for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
...Angola Penal Farm in Louisiana last week six convicts seized a locomotive, went roaring away towards freedom in the hills. When their steam gave out, they took to their heels, were shortly recaptured...
...three years to maintain the status quo. 2) There has come to power in London a Cabinet of Laborites who believe that, though Britain must continue to police Egypt's Suez Canal (route to India, "spinal column of the empire"),* still it should be possible to allow Egyptians substantial freedom in the Nile valley and autonomous rule in such great cities as Alexandria and Cairo...
...made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...
...Relief in Philadelphia. Released the next morning she said: "I went to the meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...