Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a lame composition about primary slush funds, entitled "Show That Fellow the Door.' They sang Senator Shipstead's farewell to his Farmer-Labor Party and a none too ingenious parody intended to represent Senator James A. Reed...
Political Reaction. Onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labor Party, accused Premier Stanley Baldwin and his ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...destinies of Harvard University for 40 years. Although it can in no way be regarded as the expression of the undergraduate body as a whole, it does express the point of view of undergraduates. We who are in Harvard today are enjoying the full fruits of this man's labor for the future Harvard. The CRIMSON therefore has considered it to be eminently fitting to show its appreciation in this positive though necessarily limited manner...
...were known to be very advanced and the Board of Overseers at first rejected his election, subsequently consenting to it by divided vote. He says, "I had not taken much interest in the discussion over me and was content to find relief from the sorrow at home in strenuous labor at the Institute of Technology. When, however, my election as president had been completed--unexpectedly to me--I turned at once to the functions of the President and the needs of Harvard University, and in a few weeks had become absorbed in the new duties...
...Black Belt" (old South Side) in Chicago. Since the '80s and '90s, his industrial significance has slipped a bit; the Italians beat him out of the bootblacking business; the Scandinavians made more alert janitors; both the French and the Italians put more tasty frills into catering; labor unions dogged his way in the skilled industries. In many Northern cities there is among Negroes a greater percentage of women at work than men. Professor Dowd's chapter on the Negro in Manhattan is one of the best in the book. The colony of some 200,000 Negroes...