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Hall's remaking of the Klan reached its peak in 1915 when he founded a secret left-terrorist organization called the Clan of Toil, clearly modeled in its air of mystery and vigilante spirit on the Klan but dedicated to "bettering immediately the economic condition of the Southern Worker" and "making USE and OCCUPANCY the only title to land." Hall saw in the ills of the South in 1915--tenant farming, poverty, exploitative land and factory owners--a great many similarities to Reconstruction, when his father's generation had complained of the same things, but Hall blamed them...
...rush hours but not in between. During the midday break, they are paid time and a half for three hours that they may spend as they please: taking a snooze, going to the movies, tending bar. A more rational solution would be to hire part-time drivers for peak periods, but the Transit Authority claims that this would be even more expensive than paying employees for not working. The part-timers would have to be given all the hefty fringe benefits that the unions have wrested from the city...
...booters' frustration reached its peak 15 minutes into the game, when a holding call against Columbia nullified a score by Acorn and Lyman Bullard pushed the subsequent penalty shot wide of the left side of the goal mouth...
When Dr. Robert H. Ebert was 50 years old and at the peak of a distinguished career in academic medicine and hospital administration in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1964, he left the midwest and came east, to Harvard...
...hardly have come at a worse time. The industry has barely begun to recover from what for it has been more like a depression than a recession. New-home starts bounced up 14% in July but flattened out in August at an annual rate of 1.3 million, v. a peak of 2.4 million in 1972. Largely because of high home prices, the $2,000 income tax credit to buyers stimulated sales very little. Continued disintermediation, says U.S. Savings and Loan League Economist Ken Thygerson, "will abort the housing recovery...