Word: tradesmen
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...resulted in complete demoralization. . . . Reports now indicate that workers are being discharged and that wives and children are again being pressed into service to meet cut-throat competition. We are back where we started, with many added disadvantages. Racketeering is again showing its sinister head among the service tradesmen. This gentry is circulating among the trades, offering protection where the Government failed...
Certainly personality is a tricky enough substance for the specialist without splitting it, and when this combination is put before 12 idealistic, uninformed tradesmen the result is fatal. The solution is not to exclude the evidence but to exterminate America's jingoistic love for the jury...
...with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous quarrel, a superannuated clerk who idolized Bruno but hated the rest of them, and Anitra, Bruno's youngest daughter and his favorite. Temperamental herself, and expert at mimicry, Anitra was also hardheaded. When she discovered how tradesmen were cheating her mother she took over the housekeeping, held the public purse. When she decided that her father must have financial independence to finish his great symphony, she bargained herself to one of his rich friends for an endowment of $250.000. Though most men, including...
...Urwick Goodbody stared goggle-eyed through his field glasses for 40 min. at a swimming creature with a long, thin neck, a small head and, he thought, eight humps on its back. The Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire forbade Scotsmen to take potshots at the beast. Local innkeepers and tradesmen figured the monster had put into their pockets ?5,000 in new trade...
Unfortunately, the tradesmen of Boston took over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...