Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abused for the purpose of conducting elaborate lobbies in favor of special legislation. Mr. Mondell, late of the House, and Mr. Lenroot of the Senate have both expressed the opinion that lobbying by ex-members is a growing evil to which Congress must sooner or later address itself, or suffer undue influence at the hands of irresponsible and special interests...
...country. The establishment of a great coal and iron industry in Germany has obvious advantages to himself. It insures illimitable profits for the future. So the great magnate stirs the people up against the French under the guise of patriotism; and hungry, discontented, deceived men resist and suffer for the Coal King and his satellites...
...serve to temper Mr. Babbitt's complacency. In the first place financial conditions in Western Europe, and especially in Germany, are in many respects becoming more rather than less chaotic, and until the credit and currency of this important part of the world are stabilized, America too must suffer in some degree. Secondly, certain fundamental lines of business in this country aro not yet on a satisfactory basis, chief among these being our vast agricultural, coal and railroad industries, and the current housing and rent situation. Thirdly, the cycle of business, now evidently rising toward prosperity, will...
...cost of anthracite coal can never be figured in dollars and cents alone," concludes the report, "there must be added to the labor cost an annual toll of over 500 lives, of over 20,000 workers who suffer accidents, of men and boys who do work as dirty and dangerous as soldiers in war, that coal may be produced to warm the homes of our people...
...perhaps by thousands of miles from the field of action? How much better equipped for the struggle is the contestant who when the becomes physically incapacitated can climb a street car and reach his home within a few minutes! Not only does the contestant laboring under unfavorable conditions needlessly suffer from physical disabilities resulting from lack of proper medical care, but must in addition sacrifice valuable time which he should devote to his studies. Has not the time come that the obsolete medical system be supplanted by more modern equipment in sufficient quantity as to make it available...