Word: unionistic
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...worth of farm mortgages outstanding; 5) licensing all dealers in agricultural products; 6) higher income taxes; 7) a $500,000 limit on all inheritances; 8) the domestic allotment plan of price upping;* 9) consideration of producers' strikes. A red-hot Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson declared: "Low farm prices are the cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union...
...education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform he took a newspaper job. Beautiful Damaris Gordon complicated his situation by appearing to prefer his rival, Captain Holcombe. When his editor cut his Race Week story to tatters, with Damaris avoiding him and Holcombe forcing him into...
...ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...
General Secretary Arthur James ("Emperor") Cook of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, famed unionist leader ("Thank God for Moscow!"), went to the hospital because of pains in his right leg which he had injured during his 21 years underground in the mines and hurt again when in 1926 he scuffled with non-unionists. Forthwith, surgeons amputated the leg above the knee...
...Twice before have airplanes dropped illegal bombs in the U. S.: 1) during a coalstrike war in Logan County, W. Va. in 1921, when 6,000 non-unionists employed by mine owners dug trenches, mounted machine-guns, sent bombers over their 8,000 unionist foes; 2 ) in 1926, during the Herrin, Ill. Birger-Shelton rum-running feud...