Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe that Britain "is willing to cancel all War debts, but, since the U. S. will not join us, we are obliged to collect enough to meet our American obligations...
...days, trainloads of refugees arrived in each country. The brutality of the Poles was unsurpassed. Allegedly women with week-old babies were forced to join the German exodus. Many adults and a number of babies died. German families, settled in Upper Silesia for life, as they thought, were forced on only a few hours' notice to vacate their dwellings, leave their jobs, their household belongings, and go to a country that was so ill-prepared to receive them that many thousands had to be lodged in filthy barracks. And if the Germans were less inhuman, they were guilty...
...Gone to join the shadows with Altgeld* the Eagle...
...preachers of Herrin cooperated splendidly, save just one, Rev. Story, pastor of the Christian Church. His excuse was that his people had concluded not to join in. However, most all of them attended the meetings regularly and his own family came often. Every other minister in the entire county was in the meeting giving assistance from time to time...
This procedure is still observed between coal operators and coal miners when they are about to join battle over a wage scale. It was observed, last week, at Atlantic City. There the miners came, headed by John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to present their demands, drawn up a week before at Scranton, Pa. (TIME, July 13), for a new wage contract to replace that which expires on Aug. 31. The miners ask 1) a two-year contract; 2) increases of 10% for contract miners and $1 a day for day workers; 3) the check-off (collection...