Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union fête day; in Pittsburgh, past smoke-stained buildings, union miners paraded to honor John Mitchell, champion of the eight-hour day. They timed their march to pass the shops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as the noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. had decided to go nonunion. And then Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse...
...Politically the country lies dead. Between the parties there are no issues, no fundamental differences. . . . The one in power mocks our democracy and our humanity in Nicaragua, in Mexico, in China. Bullets, bullets, bullets-these are his threats, these his remedies...
There, he spoke more in humor than in rage. He might have led a liberal party into power. But, upon him as upon his fellow regular irregular, Senator William E. Borah, "party ties lie lightly." Mr. Borah, ablest orator in the Senate,* Mr. Norris, dean of progressives, remained imposing might-have-beens...
...killed three British officers attached to an expedition operating through Upper Burma to free all remaining slaves. Over 1,000 slaves were freed by similar expeditions, last year, and the native chiefs appear incensed over this interference with their ancient property rights by agents of the British Raj, the power which seized Burma, by right of armed invasion...
Tutors Not Motive Power...