Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operators accept the check-off it means, as the United Mine Workers say, that there will be no more button strikes. But these are generally of short duration, and the operators prefer to be subject to them rather than collect funds that may be used against them and rather than give the union a firm control of all the miners of the coal fields...
...engaged in major attempt to free opera from the thralldom of the star. His principal measure is to engage singers for half a season, so that he will present a procession of many principals instead of having several great favorites dominate the season. However, the people want stars, prefer them to subtle artistry of production...
...Republican National Committee, has definite ideas as to how the Territory can be developed. Others are more or less opposed to his point of view. He wants more authority for the officers of the Alaskan Government and more capital to develop the Territory's resources. Some Alaskans prefer more Washington control, which (if suffering from the red tape and the ignorance of distance) is at least likely to be impartial. As for capital, they fear its invasion, because of the examples of the Guggenheims in the mines and railroads, and the canners in the fisheries, both of which, they...
...providing the Allied Powers approve. Czecho-Slovakia sees a danger to her new-won autonomy, if the Habsburgs come back to Hungary. This is partly true. There are 1,200,000 Magyars out of a total population of 13,595,816 in Czechoslovakia. According to reports, these people would prefer to be under the Habsburgs as constitutional monarchs rather than in a republic where freedom counts for less than did that of the Czechs in the last decades of Franz Josef's reign...
Good Plays, Good Props, Good Acting-The Year in Review Now that they have started putting linen slipcovers over the theatre seats, and critics everywhere have made out lists of the five or ten best performances they ever saw-now that most people are beginning to prefer to stay at home with the electric fan and a highball rather than perspire before the most thrilling of theatrical performances-now, in fact that summer is icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider...