Word: toiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered...
...struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel. He had sentenced himself to this incarceration...
...lived a goodly people, with herds of cattle, flocks of sheep and goats, and sties full of fat swine. Their streets were all paved with cobblestones, and each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
...done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether it be occupied by a man of wealth or by a man who must earn his daily bread by his daily toil. . . . An amendment to the constitution may be necessary . . . but if so, I think there is no question whatever that our people would overwhelmingly ratify such an amendment at the polls...
Back to Manhattan and his 42nd-story office overlooking City Hall Park where his faithful investigator of 16 years service, John Terry (ne Capozucca) and his three lawyer-helpers toil, surrounded by framed pictures of "The Boss" and clients he has defended, came Lawyer Liebowitz. Refreshed by a night's sleep at his big new eleven-room home in Brooklyn where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest...