Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free list." Due to this tariff protection, the value of the farm crop is 30% higher than it was in 1921; our national wealth is greater than that of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy combined. 3) A restrictive immigration law which prevents unfair competition with our labor. 4) Help for the farmers by extension of $500,000,000 in rural credits and permitting co-operative marketing without conflict with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 5) A policy of economy which has reduced expenditure per annum from $6,141,000,000 in 1921 to approximately...
...this country are to preserve our government, which has been built with so much sacrifice and labor, we must keep it free of the influence of money. That means, of course, that we must scotch corruption relentlessly wherever we find it. In dealing with this question of corruption, the trouble is that corruption shades off in a hundred different ways that become increasingly difficult to detect...
...Labor problems, capitalism, government had been subjects of his public utterances, which he continued when the Ku Klux Klan appeared and Prohibition became an acute issue. Of the Klan he said: ". . . magicians, astrologers, suggesters, healers and false prophets." Prohibition enlisted his support in a controversy with Wet President Butler of Columbia University...
...even begun. The negotiants bowed formally to one another, dispersed. All hope of peace seemed gone. Then 17,000 Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with the Miners' Federation, accepted an offer from the Bolsover Colliery Co. to resume work at their former wages, agreed to labor 7½ hours a day. Though capitulation by 17,000 miners out of a striking 1,000,000 meant nothing, an impetus to separate and regional agreements was thus given by example. Tory mine owners, prematurely exultant, touted rumors that the strike was cracking...
...story, $40,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan appealed to the du Pont interests at its construction in 1915. Last year the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bought control. This they sold last week to William H. Vanderbilt, Harry C. Gushing III and President Leroy W. Baldwin of the Empire (labor interests) Trust...