Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor unions had agitated the question. In the Federal Court at Buffalo, Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon lost their cases. In the Circuit Court of Appeals they won, with many a fine reference to the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the historic freedom of U. S.-Canadian comings & goings. The Supreme Court nodded its approval...
...Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota...
...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...
...General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...
Fierce spading and shoveling by Japanese students began in the courtyard of Waseda University last week-all because beloved Professor Yuzo Tsubouchi has finished, after 43 years labor, a translation of the complete works of William Shakespeare into Japanese...