Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troubled the serenity of New Bedford. Wages of the textile operatives, averaging $19 a week, were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
...week the total of brokers' loans mounted. Federal Reserve banks, led by Chicago, raised the rediscount rate to 5%.* Still the member banks reported that corporations and individuals were withdrawing deposits and putting their funds on the call loan market. Last week, U.S. bankers sat down to a serious campaign to end the wholesale diversion of money for speculative purposes...
...Advisory Committee. Dr. Work remained chairman of this body, ex-officio. Senator Moses' chief duty would be to aid in the Congressional campaign, with special reference to the seven Senate seats held by Democrats between Maryland and Maine. Resilient, Senator Moses declared that he was satisfied. "Serious differences are sometimes characteristic of strong-minded men," he said. "I should say that just now harmony is at least a foot thick hereabouts." And off he dashed to Dublin, N. H., to enlist the services of Col. George Harvey, publicist-extraordinary to all Republican nominees since 1916 (before which he helped...
...George Moses, the Hooverizer beside whose desk Mr. Owen was standing when he performed his "bolt." Senator Moses presented Mr. Owen to newsgatherers thus: "Gentlemen, behold the representative of the aroused Democratic sentiment in the border states." And Mr. Owen answered Nominee Smith by saying: "I was never a serious candidate [for President] and there never was any likelihood that Tammany would support me." The chief significance of "bolts" lies in the volume of votes which they may involve. The volume they represent is a less ponderable matter, especially when the bolter is out of office. Mr. Owen, part Cherokee...
...negligence, you get your money back. "If your idea of good champagne is peculiar, you get your money back. "If for any reason, or for no reason at all, you are not satisfied, you get your money back." Reassured by the brute force of guarantees, but still bewildered, serious clubmen sought the facts about the new, post-prohibition, U. S. champagne industry...