Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Democratic Party under my leadership is going to prostrate him, drive his children out of his house and leave him helpless and homeless. What a stupid performance-of all the men in the world to urge that against a man who came up from the ranks of labor himself, and if elected President I am going to drive them all out of their home...
Since the establishment of the German Republic, major labor disputes have been settled summarily, expediently by arbitration courts. But last week such a court was insolently flouted, its decision scorned...
...necessary tedious. The classics are tasted but any attention to literary values must wait on the stumbling paraphrases of the classroom. Better known than these slightly musty process are the writers increasingly read in this country men like Proust and Hampton and Thomas Mann. With the expenditure of some labor elementary knowledge does not preclude the enjoyment of these writers. And well disciplined intelligent individual study in line with all modern tendencies promises more of permanence and adhered to yields as much at the moment as grammatical boredom...
...teaching in various colleges, and a year as assistant secretary of the National Civic Federation of 1902, Commons became professor of Economics at Wisconsin in 1904. In his term of service at this university Professor Commons has trained a large number of men now prominent in the field of labor relations. From 1913 to 1915 he was a member of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations...
...National Monetary Association. Since then he has been head of the National Consumers League, and since 1904, director of the American Bureau of Industrial Research. His published works include: "The Distribution of Wealth", "Social Reform and the Church", and "Trade Unionism and Labor Problems...