Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory. For 16 months, the U. S. waited for its idol to come home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword of honor from President McKinley, so much handshaking that the idol's hand became painfully swollen...
Orders sped, and soon the highly organized committees of Capitalists and Laborers which represent these classes at the bar of the State (TIME, May 2) were told what they must do. Capital must cut prices; but would be allowed also to cut wages. Labor must accept lower wages; but would find the purchasing power of these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some...
...Turin, capitalists cut prices generally by 10% to 50%. Restaurant prices dropped 10% in Milan, and other prices in varying proportions. In these cities and in the rest of Northern Italy, where Fascismo is strongest, Capital and Labor dared not resist...
...methods first. This doctrine of "rightful reprisals" was made last week the basis of a five-volume defense of German War practices. Onetime Minister of Justice Dr. Johannes Bell presented the report, entitled "International Law In the World War" to the Reichstag. The five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that, in nearly all instances, weapons discountenanced by international law were first employed by the Allies and then adopted in "rightful reprisal" by The Central Powers...
...minority report postulates as wrong that 500,000 Belgian workers were deported from their homeland to Germany and, in some instances, were forced to labor there...