Word: freemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with'' NRA's collective bargaining provisions, he nevertheless denied the prosecutor's petition. Grounds: "It amounts to the deprivation of the fundamental right which one has to conduct his own affairs honestly...
...ethics, for basically its ethics are the same. It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new, and the Constitution of the United States; its motives are the same. . . . It seeks to cement our society, rich and poor, manual worker and brain worker, into a voluntary brotherhood of freemen, standing together, striving together, for the common good...
Free. World Freemasonry began, according to impartial historical calculations, with the building of the great medieval cathedrals in Great Britain.* It was a trade guild of freemen, distinguished from medieval serfs. It was distinguished from other guilds because the masons- stonecutters and stonesetters-had to travel about, wherever a cathedral was building. Freemasons would set up near the works a lodge wherein to serve meals and prepare their stones. To these lodges no persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges...
...well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...
...Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand were made freemen of the City of London last week, proclaimed to be "men of good name and fame." Cried City Chamberlain Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollack, according to ancient ritual...