Word: temperance
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...hope was materially strengthened when Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio, visited the White House, laid before him all the plans and expectations of the carrier executives. For weeks Mr. Willard has been in constant negotiation with brotherhood leaders and no U. S. railman today knows the temper of U. S. rail labor better than he. To the President he said: "I'm confident an agreement will be reached at the wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage cut which, with...
...separation, you cannot be divorced. In Maine "spouses are bound indissolubly together in the bonds of mutual infidelity." According to an Iowa decision, "profanity bears much more proximately on the impairment of a woman's health than upon that of a man." In Tennessee "mere acerbity of temper, occasional reproaches, or rude language on the part of the husband toward the wife . . . do not constitute a sufficient ground for divorce...
...after electing a Speaker and liberalizing the rules, Democratic leaders turned the House loose to blow off political steam for three full days. Technically the members were debating the President's message on the State of the Union. Practically they were giving an exhibition which clearly indicated the political temper of the session ahead. Excerpts from last week's House debates...
...Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual 425 million kilowatt hours of electricity, also hope that Lake of the Ozarks will temper their city's blistering summers...
...cover of boiler-room Roman the better to face hard facts. In every case, the age has made the magazine not the magazine the age. For with the passing of personal journalism and the great tradition of William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley, the American press lost its crusading temper. Editors took it as their business astutely to tell their readers only what they liked to hear. When the old-fashioned virtues became museum-pieces, "Vanity Fair" and "Life" were careful merely to raise an eyebrow but never to frown at the human comedy...