Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muttering about "academic freedom," getting up petitions, holding meetings. Dr. Uhler's resignation was at once demanded. Few days later, in spite of sputtering members of the American Association of University Professors (of which Dr. Uhler is a member) and a committee of New Orleans writers headed by Lyle Saxon (Old Louisiana, Lafitte, The Pirate), he was suspended. Then met the University Executive Board, of which Governor Huey Pierce Long is a leading member. Forthwith it dismissed Dr. Uhler...
...Results, All summer Saxony's toiling 120 have marched out to her dikes each day in squads. Sometimes waist deep in water, they have driven piles with heavy mallets, carted sand and stones in awkward wooden trays. Cost to the Saxon Government has worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured...
...Saxon Laborites drew different conclusions: 1) The experiment has proved that thousands of unemployed are not "loafers on the dole" but men pitifully eager to do hardest work for lowest pay; 2) The fact that 120 men eating food bought wholesale and cooked in bulk ate 2 marks 50 pfennigs worth of food per day suggests that this is the minimum cost of adequately feeding adult males. How then can a Saxon on the dole, who only gets two marks per day, adequately feed and lodge himself...
Denouncing work under labor platoon conditions as "State slavery," Saxon Labor leaders demanded last week either "work at honest pay or an increase in the Dole...
...panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize whiskey, make it easy to obtain, and you will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound...