Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewisite' that was really responsible for the Armistice", said Captain Phillips. The Germans were told that airplanes with ton containers would fly over their cities and wipe out every living thing within the time of a few seconds...
...simple class conflict of Capital and Labor. The American Civil Liberties Union and a representative Citizens' Committee headed by Norman Hapgood, editor of Hearst's International, have intervened to make the Logan situation a test of free speech and constitutional guarantees in West Virginia. The first thing they did was to hold an open meeting at Logan, in the heart of the non-union coal country, closed for years to free speech on coal questions, and discuss the subject: " What Shall the Federal Coal Com-mission Be Told About Logan?" Application was made to Sheriff Don Chafin...
...Eliot cannot mean to be taken literally when he says, "He (the labor union man) still believes that there is no such thing as joy in work". Labor union men, like all other men, find joy in some forms of work, in creative work, in work that is the free expression of one's self. But labor union men, like all other men can never find joy in the dreadful monotony and machine-character of industry, in being "Nut 39" or "Nut 15" (expressive names attached to hundreds of laborers in Ford's factories in Detroit...
Something ought to be done with these incompetent operators. It's criminal! Here's this fool weatherman yesterday went and jammed the damn thing into reverse! SOLAN PLENES
...Germany there is nothing but frank despair," said Commissioner Noyes, continuing his discussion from Germany's point of view. "Of course, there is one obvious thing, namely, that Germany does not want to pay. But there is a second fact, equally obvious--that France would not allow Germany to pay even if she could meet the reparations demanded, which are, even in their revised form, 43 per cent of the total wealth of Germany before the war. The ability to pay the reparations is necessarily concomitant with military strength. This France does not want Germany to regain. The position...