Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When this disturbance is over and Parliament resumes its normal functions, it will be very necessary to appreciate that this general strike is not a strike at all. The resolution of the Trade Union Congress to call everybody out, regardless of contracts made by workmen, is not a lawful...
...stopped work, and combating the Government's anti-strike propaganda. As an example of this last phase of activity, heated words were penned and printed upon both sides as to how many London subway trains were actually in operation. Government publicity gave the impression that the service approached normal, Labor publicity that it approached paralysis, and Londoners who experienced for themselves came to various conclusions...
...nearest competitors were Carl W. Forsythe, Ypsilanti State Normal (Mich.), and Edson Smith of Monmouth College...
...supporters are likely to take the same stand. Already last week eleven Republican Senators got together at luncheon to root for the farmer in a way that forebodes their voting for the Haugen bill or something similar. Among the eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three of the latter were up for reelection. Mr. Cummins in particular, faced Senator Brookhart, "the farmers' friend." But the politics of the situation reaches even further than...
...ranks. Nowhere else, except in Soviet Russia, is trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many able bodied workers are controlled, as to strikes, by the Trades Union Congress as there are men, women and children in New York City. The unionists operate, in normal times, virtually all the land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these men, together with "the army of unemployed workers" (rarely fewer than a million strong in the British Isles since 1920), thought chiefly in terms of hours, shillings, bread...