Word: riche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...laborer to his ill-paid job by threat of imprisonment or fine if the latter ceases work. Persons temporarily unemployed by reason of differences with employers, as the law phrases it, are not included in its provisions. The law-makers, however, have not exempted the so-called "idle rich." The receipt of income from property or other source is not considered the equivalent of "gainful employment." Students are the only other class of citizens excluded from the law's operation...
...victory, but it does seem as though a labor conscription policy would bring the most efficient results in spite of the opposition that the powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always odious, but it is the only fair method of selection and it would strike rich as well as poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only way to put the workmen, manual and intellectual, in the places where they would...
There is another aspect which is closely connected with Germany's imperial policy and which perhaps furnishes an answer to such an unprecedented demand. It is Germany's aim to expand. Dutch occupation of the rich territory at the mouth of the Rhine has long been a bitter obstacle to German expansion and trade. A triumphant Germany seems, therefore, to turn upon another victim. The gain of transporting war supplies through Holland is practically negligible. In demanding what she has, Germany has merely forced Dutch neutrality to a point where it must...
...persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other men holding positions of public trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle influence of Mammon-worship which should be their deadliest...
...University, has loaned two beautiful Italian primitive paintings to the Fogg Art Museum. One of the works is a Gothic triptych by the rare Simone da Bologna, who painted in the 14th century. The other painting is attributed to Jacob di Cione, brother of Orcagna, and is also very rich in colors...