Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicted by a U. S. grand jury at Boston were the first defendants in a wages and hours criminal prosecution. Defendants: Brown's Contract Stitching, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass. Charge: that Brown paid less than 25? an hour, falsified records. Maximum penalties: $10,000 fine for a first offense; $10,000 and six months in prison for a second. Said Elmer Andrews, apprised of the indictment: "The act has teeth in it and the Administration proposes to enforce...
...mass of patriotic Poles had had to choose before the War between their Russian, German and Austrian masters, they would have undoubtedly chosen the Austrians. In Polish Austria, Poles had considerable autonomy. Poles were allowed to enter the Austrian Civil Service, had Polish schools and law courts. Under German rule few Poles held public jobs and under the Tsar many a Polish patriot (like Pilsudski) spent long, hard winters in Siberian exile...
...Cloudy Fair 18 Wet Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Cloudy Poor 70 1 in. br. cr. Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 11 Franconia Notch, N.H. Cloudy Poor 40 1in. br. cr. Fryeburg, Me. Fair Fair 28 Light cr. Greenfield, Mass. Fair None 2 Soft Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Fair 20 Granular Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Poor 16 Wet Lancaster, N.H. Raining Poor 10 Wet Lincoln, N.H. Cloudy Fair 28 Wet Littleton, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Wet Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Poor 6 Wet Newfound Region...
...fundamentals of democracy which makes it different from the totalitarian states, and after finding the obvious definitions of majority rule and protected minority rights inadequate, reached three conclusions. First be listed the supremacy of reason ever brute force, second the importance of the individual mind as opposed to the mass mind, third the recognition of a code of reasoned justices...
...must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...