Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Richard," first commissioner from the thirteen Colonies to the Court at Versailles, attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
...became interested in the work. At the suggestion of Mr. Irwin I devised a set of signals, made up from a combination of Army wig-wag and Stock Exchange signals, by which I can signal in an instant to the score-board the "downs," "yard line," "yards to go," "who's ball," "play by," "man hurt," "goal," "touchdown"--in short everything that is necessary to the complete understanding of the game. Since then I have constantly improved the system so that today it is accepted as a standard all over the country...
...time of reconstruction at hand today, France must make the most of the slender stock that is left her. We must start afresh to fill the depleted ranks of our scientists and scholars and we must choose as broad and firm a foundation as possible. Every child in France should have an opportunity to make the most of its latent possibilities...
...tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe are the underlying causes...
...present world-wide search for a more satisfactory combination of the conditions which govern the life of the worker, and a more stable and balanced tendency in the development of the social order. When the summer is over, they will have learned something in the coal mines, factories, mills, stock-yards, or packing-houses, which will enable them to do their full share toward the ultimate removal of the causes of the widespread unrest among the laboring classes which threatens the peace of the world today. Certainly it is beyond controversy that the men who have signed up for these...