Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debated a bill appropriating moneys to run the U. S. Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland is devoted to States Rights. But last week, at a convention of Maryland farmers, he proposed something Federal in scope-a compact national organization of farmers, comparable to the American Federation of Labor, and for it Government aid comparable to Industry's tariff. Labor's immigration law, Banking's Federal Reserve...
...slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...with the other information concerning his advisees. As a rule these letters from parents and teachers are very helpful, and give just the kind of personal information that we need. The task of reading all this correspondence is he easy one, but the results are more than worth the labor. Occasionally, the often dreary monotony of going through these letters is broken by some amusing bit of information. One parent wrote: My boy has two good habits, smoking and drinking; he does neither one." Another wrote: "My son is passionately fond of music and intends to enter the medical profession...
...idea of the "rays", not new, but come close to home, breeds startling ramifications. What boots a Bermuda trip at the peril of permanent indigence, or long weeks of semi-nude labor in the single sculls when the golden brown reward can be reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...