Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable...
...Hyman had sent 15 "serious" cases to psychoanalysts whom he trusted. Of these two committed suicide, seven were commkted to institutions, four did not improve, one is beginning his seventh year of psychoanalysis, one "made a brilliant recovery." In defense of his specialty, Dr. Brill argued that psychoanalysis is struggling to cope with social problems which Dr. Freud's revelations of the id, ego, superego and libido have stirred up. Among such social problems is the utility of psychoanalysis itself. Testimony to the new science's utility is Chicago's Institute of Psychoanalysis, founded by Dr. Franz...
...year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters he had written her. Having paid Frieda Hempel her annuity for seven years, he halted last December, asserting Singer Hempel injured his "peace, quiet, and happiness" by "accosting" him in "public places...
...popular soak-the-rich measure, the capital gains tax places an unreasonably heavy levy on any profits made through the sale of securities on the open market. Briefly, if an investor bought General Electric Common at twenty and attempts to sell at thirty-seven, his seventeen dollar profit is so heavily taxed that he is literally compelled to hold on to the stock. The result is fatal to market stability. At a period of bullish enthusiasm when the number of buyers is unduly stimulated, the number of those who naturally be sellers is artificially restricted...