Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along with them when the bloc put up its candidate for President this year. Gompers had little choice but to follow. The significance of it is that the American labor movement has entered upon a new phase and that Gompers' day is past. He is old, broken in health and his power will not long survive the passing of leadership into other hands...
Whether Mr. Gompers' health is the all-powerful factor in the situation is a question. The venerable leader, it is true, has not been well for some time and is at present far from well. Instead of Mr. Gompers frequently appearing before newspaper men as formerly, now there usually appears another who may speak for Mr. Gompers or for others who have superseded the old leader in the real exercise of the Federation's power. In his few appearances before the press the fact of his illness, his unsteady step, an unwonted hesitation of manner were evident...
...Senator LaFollette's labor record dealing with domestic affairs is concerned, he is entitled to a clean bill of health at the hands of the American labor movement, but, as you point out in your own statement, that does not apply to his attitude on foreign relations...
...returned men were generally in good health, particularly the native porters, who were professing they had enjoyed the trip as a sort of great picnic at high wages...
...sailing from Marseilles. From then until 1895 he lived upon the sea. At first, he served on French vessels; later, aboard English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same year obtained his Master's ticket. When he changed his allegiance from...