Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter to the Labor Party and the Trade Union Conference urging them "to win the soldiers and sailors from the capitalists," to make the issue as between the workers and the exploiters "so that the army and navy mutiny," for "there is no doubt that the capitalist classes intend to intimidate and, if necessary, crush the workers with the army and navy...
...Warriner wrote to Mr. Lewis that the operators had given full powers to their negotiating committee, that they had chosen their representatives and did not intend to change them at the dictation of the miners. "You would, I am sure, resent any attempt by us to say who should represent the mine workers. We must maintain the same right to say who shall represent the operators. This right has been exercised, and the personnel of the committee can not be changed...
...report that he was going to call a conference of miners and operators at Swampscott, since he had made no such plan; not to report that he was planning to call a special session of Congress because of the coal situation or any other reason, since he does not intend to; not to report that he personally was taking part in debt negotiations with foreign diplomats, since he was not; not to report that he had seen any evidence ' of bootleggers or rumrunners operating near Swampscott, since he had not; not to report that the heavens were about...
...Department of Labor, through its Children's Bureau, took the parental bull directly and single-handedly by the horns. Its Dr. I. A. Thom issued commandments on child management: "Don't bribe. Don't make promises which you know you cannot or do not intend to keep. Don't threaten a child in order to obtain control over...
...Ireland now has a stable Government, statistics are being kept and, before long, we will be able to make accurate reports concerning our imports and exports. In the meantime, we intend to prevent merchants from calling inferior goods by an Irish name. This injures us and restricts our market...