Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waiting to be paid $700 for his services. Another rumor said that Miss Vanzetti objected to further display of her brother's remains. The absence of one of the chief exhibits deflated but did not entirely halt the Union Square meeting. A huge clenched fist, representing Labor reared itself aloft in the intermittent rain while orators reiterated complaints of the masses...
...Labor party and the National League are, perhaps, in worst shape. It was reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...
...unofficial delegation of the American Federation of Labor, visiting Moscow last week, Leon Trotzky, onetime Soviet War Lord, shock-headed and wild of eye, declaimed upon the ideals of Bolshevism and the countervailing tendencies of U. S. bourgeois democracy...
...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
Farmers' Party: The farmers comprised in this party are mostly the large land owners, the small farmer often belonging to the Labor group or the Republicans. In general it supports the government because the government opposes tariff protection. The farmers argue that they cannot afford protection because it would restrict their markets and increase the cost of agricultural machinery, imported mainly from Great Britain...