Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., and leader of the operators, agreed to the demands of the miners that all members of the industry should have a uniform eight-hour day with the same pay as at present. It was also agreed that all miners' particular grievances in future should be settled within 30 days...
...wise do not know everything. Samuel Johnson, able lexicographer, once ejaculated: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all!" Yet Mrs. Mary Harris Jones-"Mother" Jones-attended the Farmer-Labor Convention in Chicago (see page 5) and made a speech that, if surprising in a woman of her age, could hardly be described as poorly done...
Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart...
Died. Mrs. Samuel M. Vauclain, wife of the President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Rosemont, Pa., from a hemorrhage following a long illness...
...Bernstein wrote to Mr. Ford asking that he accept service in New York State. Samuel Untermyer was retained to fight the suit...