Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...families visited by the Committee's agents, 407 were "grower" families and 274 contract labor families. The total number of persons in those families between the ages of five and sixteen working in the beet fields was 1,358, or 67 per cent of the workers. More than 50 per cent of these children worked on a contract labor basis...
...Gorgon of Faculty censorship has raised its snaky locks at Ann Arbor: as a result, sixteen members of the Michigan "Sunday Magazine" have resigned. The particulars vary with the point of view. The editors point to a series of faculty interventions which made their positions impossible. A scientific article on gland transference, approved by a professor, roused the final outburst which precipitated their resignations. By the other camp this article is described as intentionally repulsive and disgusting; and the editor of the "Daily", the superior of the "Magazine" is said to have asked the unruly staff of the latter...
Nicola Sacco, convicted over a year ago with Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of a paymaster and his guard in Boston, has been on hunger strike for sixteen days and is said to be showing signs of weakness. The Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted...
...hundred and sixteen sailing vessels and steamers were lost at sea in 1922. Of these, 60 were under the American flag...
...Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates...