Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis gave a party but nobody of real importance came. He meant it to be a peace party to settle the troubles of the coal industry...
President Parker, looking back, claimed for the Council more or less credit in the following U. S. social and political developments: votes for women, abolition of legally segregated prostitution, the U. S. Children's Bureau (Department of Labor), juvenile courts, dress reform, Prohibition...
...Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss. (TIME, July 26, 1926), who served with the Legion gallantly in Syria, then deserted. He was not sentenced to death but to only eight years hard labor because of pressure from the U. S. State Department. Last week the result of more such pressure was that Bennett J. Doty was released from serving out his sentence and arrived in France from Sidi-bel-Abbes...
...Parliamentary Socialist (Labor) Party once more re-elected as their leader, last week, that capable and kindly Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald, the only Laborite ever to become Prime Minister of England...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...