Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
...that the pages of Thucydides are often frank, to say the least. When he strode up and down with impatient nervous steps, the pressmen did not attribute this activity to the bombast of salesmanship. Rather they congratulated this great statesman, former Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, upon the completion of a labor no less monumental because self-imposed : his translation into modern Greek of Thucydides' great history, with an exhaustive commentary and an added political disquisition. The whole, when printed, will embrace 15 volumes...
...Anthony Bimba, well-known American labor agitator, and Mr. Fred Miller, editor of the Communist paper "Freihelt", will be the guests of the Liberal Club at a luncheon today...
...Bimba, who has been long known as a labor leader of decided Communistic tendencies was brought to trial this winter on charges of treason and blasphemy for a speech he delivered in Brockton. He was acquitted on the latter charge but found guilty and fined on the former. The case is now being appealed. The trial has attracted more attention than any, except the famous Scopes case in Dayton, Tennessee, which has been held during the last few years. Its chief importance lies in its relation to the rights of free speech, when those rights involve the spread of radical...
...American prosperity and the causes thereof are painted in glowing colors by two English writers in a book written after a tour of investigation in the United States. A leading editorial in The Observer enumerates nine reasons accounting for this condition. They include many of the ideals for which labor reformers have long striven without knowing they have been attained until apprised of the fact by an English book. Promotion in America is by merit; employers are, not hostile tonight wages and they seek continually to surround their workers with cleanliness and right. Every effort is made to provide conveniences...