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...Michigan that for six months the economic royalists represented by General Motors, the Du Fonts, Sloan and others contributed their money and used their energy to drive the President of the United States out of Washington and this Administration out of power. "The Administration asked Labor to help it repel this attack, and Labor helped the President to repel the economic royalists. The same economic royalists now have their fangs in Labor, and Labor expects the Administration to support the auto workers in every legal way in their fight. "Labor is on the march in this country toward those better...
...Because of the intense feeling against the General," announced 6 ft. 5 in. Sheriff Evan Harrod of Henry County, "and the murmuring that some of Mrs. Taylor's kinfolk are preparing for any emergency, we are going to be ready to repel any attempt against the General's life...
...wanted to show the public that the marine unions were rotten at their top and that working conditions on American ships were so unfair as to repel good Americans who might want to go to sea. . . . We have made our case clear. . . . The idea now will be to organize our men on ships. They are going back fighting mad and with a job of education to per form among their fellows. When the Pacific Coast wage agreement comes up for renewal in September ... if the ship lines then hold out against our demands, the Atlantic Coast will be pulled with...
With a gush of enthusiasm which will intensify the faith of the believer, but probably repel the skeptic, Author Strong surveys Soviet achievement, finds it all praiseworthy. Embarrassing inquiries she tackles with slippery candor. The Soviet Union sells oil to warring Italy because ''idealist gestures are dangerous." Political prisoners are not sentenced merely for expressing anti-Soviet views: "all were charged with definite action against the government." Convicts live and work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally...
...French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent him out to make his own way. He taught school, studied law, sashayed into Hartford society-where his Yankee angularity...