Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costs $250 to produce an acre of tomatoes in Florida. Under cheap labor in Mexico it costs $90 to produce a similar acre." Therefore, the Florida Chamber of Commerce asked local candidates for Congress to sign a pledge to work for U. S. tariffs on tomatoes and such like. "The principle of protective tariff has been established through the years as a national policy," said the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Many a similar symptom has been observed lately, pointing toward the Republicanization of historically Democratic Florida...
...Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...
Since the rural lamp burning vote is combustible, Chancellor Churchill acted with instant decision, and extinguished the Labor attack by announcing that he had decided, overnight, to exempt kerosene from the tax, which, however, will still bear on gasoline. Well pleased at the flurry caused by his announcement, Mr. Churchill added: "His Majesty's Government have no fear that motorists will evade the tax on gasoline by attempting to use kerosene. They would do more harm to their engines than to the Exchequer...
...Gallienne and Walter Hampden lead to Boston companies that have won wide and merited fame. In contrast to the frothy fare typical of so much of the stage, they have both chosen substantial material. Isben is no easy author to interpret, but Mr. Hampden has not stinted his labor, and represents Shakespeare with a Hamlet over whom cynical reviewers have grown enthusiastic...