Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richards v. Labor...
Organized labor is the true solution to the problems confronting textile workers, but let them, as well as to those to whom they pay their "dues" remember that they cannot dictate to the people and its constituted officers just what policy shall be adopted in the proper management of industrial disorders and uprisings. Governor Richards has been quite fair and impartial in his dealings with each side to the controversies, and it ill behooves certain factions in trying to picture things differently...
...friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They all addressed him as "Mr. President...
...political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME, Feb. 20, 1928). Therefore last week millions of Britons of every party-Labor, Liberal, Conservative-breathed fervent relief as the armament-race demon was definitely scotched. The three chief scotchers were President Herbert Clark Hoover, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes-an engineer, a Socialist and a lawyer. Engineer Hoover has called for the invention of a scientific "yardstick...
Producers ignore Equity. They feel that Hollywood's night labor and freakish habits are elements in a new industry which Equity cannot be expected to understand, which have been justified by that industry's prosperity. Director Lionel Barrymore likened Equity's campaign to a major operation on a child...