Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor. The American Federation of Labor supports the Smoot-Hawley bill on the theory that it will keep out the products of cheap foreign labor. Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. vice president, bitterly attacked Henry Ford for his tariff opposition, citing the fact that the motorman had moved his tractor plant to Ireland, where he makes his machines at 60% of the U. S. cost and imported them to this country duty-free as agricultural implements. But labor was not unanimous. George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America, last week flayed...
...Ambassador was about to sail for a furlough in the U. S. Cambridge University had just made him an honorary Doctor of Laws and in the distinguished audience sat prim John Galsworthy, elfin Sir James Matthew Barrie, beefy Lords Beauchamp and Bridgeman, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson? honorary degree...
...York, red-hot anti-Red, was appointed chairman of a Congressional committee of five who will begin the 1930 Red hunt by calling three star witnesses: 1) Attorney-General Mitchell for the Department of Justice; 2) Secretary of Labor Davis for informaton about Red immigrants; 3) Third Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor...
Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...
Professor Garrod's Harvard lectures will be issued during the summer by the University Press, under the title, "Poetry and the Teaching Office, and Other Lectures." The volume will include talks on Matthew Arnold, Emerson, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Bridges, and related subjects in poetry...