Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics v. Strikes. The A. F. of L. has definitely adopted a new way of arguing for higher wages. It will "rely on facts rather than force." The strike will be held in abeyance as a weapon of last resort. Labor will compile, interpret and argue with figures first...
Rear Admiral Magruder had filed no copy of "The Navy and Economy" with Secretary Wilbur. So newspapers, which dearly love a fight, had resort to "Sic 'em" headlines. They blared: "ADMIRAL'S BLAST DISTURBS WILBUR . . . ASSAILS NAVY COSTS . . . ONSLAUGHT . . . MAY BRING DISCIPLINARY MOVE . . . UNDER FIRE FROM OFFICIALS...
...charges that Germany is guilty of the greatest of all wars, we, the German people, repudiate in all its phases. Not envy, hate, nor eagerness for conquest caused us to resort to weapons. War was a last resort for us, and the requiring of the greatest sacrifices of the entire people was the last means of maintaining our prestige against a host of enemies...
...Leaving Mrs. Walker behind, he dined "stag" with some men who later took him along "The Trail of the Grand Dukes," from cabaret to cabaret in the Montmartre district. In the resort of Josephine Baker, U. S. Negress, his presence was riotously acclaimed...
...Yalta, onetime fashionable resort, 1,300 fugitives fought vainly for a place on a departing steamer. At Balaklava, famed for the charge of the Light Brigade, houses toppled. At Miskhor the tower of the "Lark's Nest" (famed villa) fell from its lofty perch down the cliffs into...