Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EDITOR OF LOS ANGELES RECORD I ASK CORRECTION OF STATEMENT IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF PAGE THIRTY AUGUST FIFTH ISSUE THAT QUOTE LOCAL NEWSPAPER LONG FOES OF LABOR UNIONISM CONTINUED TO SUPPRESS NEWS UNQUOTE STOP WHILE AMBIGUOUS THIS EVIDENTLY WAS MEANT TO AND WOULD BE READ AS INCLUDING ALL NEWSPAPERS STOP LOS ANGELES RECORD MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL SIX ENGLISH DAILIES HAS NEVER BEEN QUOTE FOE OF LABOR UNIONS UNQUOTE AS ANY LABOR LEADER CAN TELL YOU STOP LIKEWISE IT HAS NOT SUPPRESSED NEWS OF EQUITY STRUGGLE BUT HAS FULLY PROMINENTLY AND FEARLESSLY PRESENTED NEWS OF BOTH SIDES STOP ASK FRANK...
Blunt, bullfrog-voiced Tom Shaw began his career as a half-time hand in a cotton mill. He became the most ruggedly potent figure in British textile trade unionism. He recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which...
George Bruce Cortelyou, 67, progressively Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...
Last week at London, Denys Stanley Thomas, Royal Air Force officer, was sentenced to one year hard labor for operating his airplane, while drunk, so erratically that a scared man passenger jumped to his death...
...whiteman forger and thief stole $140,000 of State money and was pardoned after serving four years of a five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...