Word: labours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bless Thee for increase in the knowledge of Thy marvellous works, in care for those who suffer from sickness or the lack of work, in desire that all men everywhere may live in peace and enjoy the fruits of their labour...
Hepburn because he was a thoroughgoing Liberal and a close friend and adviser of the late Sir Adam Beck, "father of Hydro." As early as 1888 Mr. Lyon was editing a paper called the Labour Reformer. For 40 years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...
...across the health, in the rain and darkness and screaming wind, struggle the figures of two men. the wind whips and twitches at their cloaks, and the men, bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly...
John Douglas Merrill: During many years of selfless labour a patient and devoted interpreter of this University to the alumni...
Alfred E. Smith, whose explosive attacks on the Roosevelt administration have rendered him suspect of the nation's liberals, now offers an amendment to the proposed child labour law. He would have its age limit revised from eighteen to sixteen, to leave the question of child labor to the states, and limit federal interference to products which move in interstate commerce. In this way, Mr. Smith believes that the law would be more workable, and more acceptable--that it would stand a better chance of ratification and enforcement...