Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
...doing exactly what we have demanded shall not be done by the Catholics." Dr. Wilson answered with another open letter to Dr. Copeland, denied that the Copeland vote had been influenced, declared: "We have no lobby here, we have no lobbyist. . . . Nevertheless we have the right of free speech, free press. . . ." Then concerning Catholics, Dr. Wilson added: "The Catholic Church has long had a headquarters here from which they have no hesitancy in conferring with Senators and other government officials, and not a Methodist pulpit in the land has made any special protest against that right." Alert Washingtonians thereupon expected...
About a year ago, ten public-spirited Philadelphians commissioned a Hungarian artist named Karoly Fulop, who lives in Paris, to paint five great murals for the music room of the Philadelphia Free Library. They did not consult the library trustees. They felt sure that Artist Fulop would produce something unquestionably suitable...
...leading schools of music in the world. In 1927, Mrs. Bok increased the endowment to a total of $12,500,000, announced the appointment of Mr. Hofmann as director. Students at the Curtis Institute are fortunate. They pay no fees, are given pianos and instruments, free rent, free attendance at Philadelphia Orchestra con certs, Metropolitan Opera, and other im portant musical events, summer sojourns here or in Europe on the advice of the faculty, financial assistance in setting out on professional careers. Last week Mrs. Bok revealed a further extension of activity. She announced that the Institute had affiliated with...
...Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power trust's nationwide practices of buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial comment...