Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prague's interest in the Pecha incident was modified during the week by the trial and sentence, in Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
...spite of his vaunted present "poverty" King Amanullah and his party of 24 were met by four large limousines at Marseilles where they left the Mooltan and proceeded to Italy by rail...
Last week Arthur E. Wilson, general employment manager, left Ford Motor Co. In eleven years he hired more than 300,000 Ford workers. No reason was announced for the Wilson withdrawal, though readers of an interview given out by Mr. Wilson after his departure noticed a discrepancy between the Ford and the Wilson ideas of employe ages. Men from 35 to 60 are the best workers, said Mr. Ford. Men from 30 to 50 are best men," said Mr. Wilson. "After 50," said he, "most men cannot stand the pace...
...barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition, he turned to near-beer as a makeshift, continued to hope for a return to the good days. He died, 92 years old, in 1927, left in his will a clause asking his heirs to carry on his business, and, "if legally possible [to carry it on] as formerly conducted by me." Last March George Ehret Jr., died. The seven remaining heirs, headed by Louis Ehret, struggled along. Their employes had thinned to 123, their sales...
Some of the U. S. authorities are William Green (American Labor and the Church), James P. Thompson (Religion is the Negation of Truth), Abraham J. Muste (Questions from the Left), A. Philip Randolph (Negro Labor and the Church...