Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Cooperative Union Congress-representing the collective-buyer horde-met 4,000 strong in West Hartlepool. Soon the delegates were furiously debating whether to continue in active alliance with the British Labor Party...
...know . . ." piped a delegate from Wallsend, "I know one Labor candidate who was elected to Parliament and wanted a new suit of clothes to wear up to London. But did he buy it ready-made in our Cooperative store? No! He went to a b-- tailor...
Although doubtless vexed by such tidings of Laborite dereliction, the Union Congress finally voted, with a few abstentions, 2,465 to 1,470 in favor of continuing to support the Labor Party...
...performances occupied one hour and twenty minutes each. The first episode attempted to present the paradisiacal scenes in which Christ announced his intentions of coming to earth. Next were shown the three kings, each an allegorical figure; last the shepherds, of whom some talked labor dissatisfaction until the chief shepherd knocked their heads together and they all went to bow down at the creche in which Jesus lay, squealing, with a halo around His head...
...Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...