Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the tobacco workers, for the most part employed by American concerns, have been on strike and the police have taken the same steps to preserve order that the police of any other country would have taken. There has been no serious street fighting, no long casualty list, no mutiny in the fleet and no Communist revolt...
...Democratic convention, where the present tension about Prohibition began to become national, the Drys were so much in the majority that there never was any serious likelihood of the party adopting a Wet plank. The law-enforcement plank that was adopted omitted a declaration against modification of the Prohibition laws for two reasons...
David Leigh Colvin, national chairman of the Prohibition Party, thought the situation looked so serious that he turned reproachfully upon Prohibition's greatest promoter, the Anti-Saloon League, and flayed it as follows: "The Anti-Saloon League is not a party, and it is not even a league. It is merely a group of paid superintendents. The Anti-Saloon League has engaged in a number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would...
...trans-Atlantic air services both profitable and safe. Two nations, Germany and England, have been rushing airship construction with this purpose in mind, but while a giant German Zeppelin will be ready for flight next month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver linen, completing the structural ribs behind which the gas bags will be placed, testing...
...SERIOUS...