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Word: labors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trail's End | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons of Freedom | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...good friend of long suffering "Conchies" is the present Labor Government. Prime Minister MacDonald himself objected long and violently to the War. Other onetime "Conchies" throng Labor's councils. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden signed an order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Conchies | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Commented a high Labor official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Conchies | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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