Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taxation. The Governors compared their states' pocketbooks and methods of filling them. Louisiana's Long instructed his guests as to the virtues and efficacy of the severance tax-a sort of subterranean tax imposed to compensate for the removal of a state's irreplaceable natural resources (oil, illuminating...
Secretary of Labor James John Davis reminisced of iron-puddling, mule driving. The color of his speech was roseate: "The long work day and the long work week is as dead as a dodo. . . . Prosperity is not the product of the classes; it is the product of the masses . . . labor-saving machines are rapidly becoming leisure-producing machines...
Instead, as the sword of death hung like that of Damocles, last week, all Englishmen faced the future with the same confident thought: "Long live our King...
...Paris long since wanted a raise...
...always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent...