Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlemont, Mass...
...wife. Quartered like a bachelor in Abraham Lincoln's White House room, Franklin Roosevelt's gnarled and gnomish No. 1 Secretary was a member of the private as well as the official Presidential family, spent more time in Washington than he did at home in Fall River, Mass...
...weeks ago the first mass fighting occurred. Camden's five City Commissioners did nothing except order the RCA loudspeaker silenced because it disturbed them at City Hall five blocks away. Less irresolute, New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd called attention of the Grand Jury to a "serious situation." Police began to use their clubs...
Blunt fact is that the American Federation of Labor is not and never has been vitally concerned with the laboring masses of the U. S. It was organized in 1886 by tough shrewd, opportunist Samuel Gompers as a loose federation of unions of skilled workmen, whose realistic aim was to establish monopolies of their skills. Through the 1920's it dwindled and declined for two reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass...
...operation for embolus is to cut until he can handle the affected artery at the site of the plugging. Above and below the embolus he applies soft rubber-covered clamps to the artery. Over the embolus "a longitudinal incision, 0.5 to 1 cm. long, is made. The mass is expressed by the fingers without difficulty and the lower clamp is removed to allow return bleeding to flush the distal [away from the heart] segment and similarly the proximal [toward the heart] segment is flushed and the clamp reapplied. With fine oiled silk suture on arterial needles, the incision is closed...