Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diminished the absence from the factory of workmen through have not yet had an administration that was definitely committed to the support and enforcement of the law. We are about to have such an administration. It would seem rather obvious, at least, to one who is not scared lest the new administration might succeed that the thing to do is to give it a chance. If, after eight years of sincere effort by a friendly administration, there is no marked improvement it will be time to consider a change...
...trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied their movement. Travelers, arriving at destinations, had first to unpack trunks, lest folded garments acquire permanent wrinkles...
...prohibition act. The life sentence was imposed under the Baumes-like Michigan law which establishes four convictions as the test of a "habitual criminal" and sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction sentence. Lest any feel that Mrs. Miller had been too severely punished. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, spoke up for Methodism. Said he: "Our only regret is that the woman was not sentenced to life imprisonment before her ten children were born. When...
Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed...
Viewing these warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...