Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potency probably being dependent upon what Britain considers her world-wide requirements. 2) Britain, with the U. S. concurring, would issue an invitation to France, Italy and Japan to discuss at London the reduction of all fleets so that the U. S.-British level of potency may be as low as possible. Reporter Hoover. On Sunday the President telephoned in to Washington (see p. 13) and told his secretary to tell the world that the Five-Power Parley invitations would go out at once. Conference date: January 20. Orator MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from...
...Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, Workers in the mill. Chief preacher was Cicero Queens, a gnarled little old man from 60 miles away in the mountains...
...Low lay the Treasury Department all summer. Homecoming legislators took their turns for customs inspection, opened every trunk and bag, paid duty on every taxable trinket. Last week Assistant Secretary Lowman feeling that the disturbance had thoroughly blown over, issued a new order, again granting "courtesy-of-the-port" to Congressmen. Newspapers fumed editorially about "unAmerican favoritism," while jubilant Congressmen, returning from abroad for the impending session of the House, jaunted through the customs in their old, carefree...
...that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth holes. Needing one more hole to keep the match alive she drove a long, low ball that hit the fairway, kicked sharply to one side, stopped square at the foot of a dead tree. If Collett could have blown the tree away she would have had as good a chance as Higbie of getting her next shot on the green. She chipped out, rolled...
Indications at the present time point to the possibility of a wide-spread textile strike throughout the South. Labor is inflamed, and justly so, over housing conditions, hours of employment, and the low wage scale prevalent in the textile mills of the southern states...