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...into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour week would not help to re-employ 150,000 jobless steel workers, that the proposed minimum wage null an hour) would not help...
...some real facts of life by one Rachel Bernstein, but he fell in love with Margaret, continued to argue with her. But the real influence in Theodore's life was the Bulpington of Blup, his romantic evil genius. When the Great War came Teddy Broxted angrily turned conscientious objector and went to jail. Margaret sympathized with him; but Theodore, after a long shillyshally, enlisted, muttering all the catchwords of the day. Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor. With more & more to cover up, Theodore became...
...honor). A Barony was given to another potent Laborite, Publicist Clifford Allen, Director of the Daily Herald. Lord Allen bears another distinction: he is one of the few peers of Britain ever to have served a jail sentence. During the War he was imprisoned three times as a conscientious objector...
...bear arms in defense of his country, under all circumstances. He wished to reserve the right to decide whether a given war was justified. That plainly involves a legal principle, but one that appears to be entirely remote from the personality of the man. He is not a conscientious objector. He is not even a thorough-going pacifist. As a matter of fact, he served with Canadian troops as a chaplain in the World War, and later with the American Army....But, according to yesterday's decision of the Supreme Court, Congress will not allow him to become an American...
...companies. He battled for a $1-per-bbl. tariff and lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose family controls Gulf Refining Co., which in turn, according to Senator Thomas, fears tariffs, embargoes, investigations. If Senator Reed would not let the oil resolution pass, vengeful Senator Thomas would block everything...