Word: toiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roots of its might lie in the glorious past, in the German race, German earth and German toil. Service in the army is service of honor to the German nation...
...several months, ever since the inauguration of N. R. A. and its much disputed clause 7a, labor has become increasingly dissatisfied with the fruits of its toil, as the growing number of strikes and lockouts attended with violence testifies. Now, hard on the heels of the Minneapolis and Toledo labor riots comes an announcement by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, that a "fight to the finish" between industry and labor threatens over a battle line extending from coast to coast...
...right them. Time has not made obsolete all of Dickens' complaints but it has seen some of them answered. The open sewer that in his day meandered from Kensington Gardens into the Chelsea slums is there no longer; Dotheboys Hall is now an antique caricature; David Copperfields now toil in grammar schools instead of warehouses...
...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...
...simple life of toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would...