Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Secretary Davis telegraphed potent mine operators in the strike area, begging them to to use his office as a meeting room to reach an agreement with Labor, most of of them declined. Potent operators have organized their mines with non-union labor since last spring. Wages are where they (the operators) want them. Such operators congratulate themselves on having "broken Labor's stranglehold on the industry...
Complained Harry G. Clark, a district superintendent: "We were told that if we did not reach perfection in these tests instituted by Mr. McAndrew some one else would be found to take our places. . . . The result of Mr. Andrew's ironhanded methods were found in cheating and dishonesty in the students and teachers." Others testified similarly...
...morning of December 29 will find the musicians on their way to Montreal, which they reach at noon. A children's concert is to be given in the afternoon, as well as the evening entertainment; both are to be held in Windsor Hall. The club will disband after this performance...
...other important differences in the two systems of education, he pointed out, are accessibility and control Edu cation is practically within the reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools
...Department of Commerce announced that "already" airplanes are put to more than 150 uses. Among them is the flying store; the flying paymaster, carrying payrolls above the reach of bandits; the flying cowboy inspecting ranges, even stopping stampedes. Also...