Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George II was deposed in 1924 as King of Greece, he is still a Royal Prince of Denmark, his fatherland. Therefore the press of Copenhagen was flustered and appalled, last week, by news that George II would appear in public debate at Oxford, England, before the famed undergraduate Oxford Union. Most unseemly to Danes seemed the subject to debate...
...nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman Catholics who know that His Holiness (once a famed mountain climber) dis approves of certain modern excesses in athletics, especially where women are concerned...
...sensational than the Government's loss was the win scored by big, sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward, who was Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. On the eve of the present election he united the Liberals and Nationalists (who had previously mastered but eleven seats) into his new Union Party and won, last week, a total of 26 seats-only two less than are held by the Government...
...Telegrams are pouring in from numerous parts of the Soviet Union," declared Isvestia, "with the news that deeds of arson and murders of active Communists are being perpetrated by the Kulaks. . . . Soviet farms, village libraries and Soviet bureaus have been burned down by the Fists* in their fierce opposition against all measures undertaken by our Communist Party and our Soviet Government. . . . Murderous attacks have been perpetrated against Communist village school teachers and social workers, women as well as men. . . . Seven murders and four attempted murders took place in public assemblies or in Soviet bureaus. The roll of our Communist dead...
...Winning to The West", Mr. McNamme, Union...