Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undaunted, Gadfly Stokes offered himself as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained Candidate Stokes, could simply issue "interest-free money." Ipswich thought so well of all this that she sent her Gadfly to the House of Commons with a landslide majority in February...
...Union Nationals swept to power in 1936, after 39 years of Liberal rule in Quebec, on the strength of some high-sounding oratory against trusts and political graft. But he found promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting for labor-baiting, and the law for which he is best known is his Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec...
Last week New York City's pugnacious little Mayor LaGuardia (an Episcopalian) banned the picketing of churches. He wrote his Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the law permitting picketing. . . . There is nothing in the Norris-La-Guardia Act which permits the picketing of God. I ought to know...
...home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...
...cooperated with him, is), was making quite a thing out of the Latin American and domestic market for munitions. He was engaged in "Protection Engineering" as president of Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose sales zoomed during NRA days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul in Ecuador, "Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again...