Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel in 1841. Your article challenges a comparison. Both Tyler and Lincoln were confronted with war when they took office. In 1841 the menacing factor was Great Britain, supported by France and Mexico. Had war ensued, the Union would have been "encircled with a wall of fire." From this threatening situation the country emerged, by Tyler's skillful diplomacy, a world power, and without any bloodshed whatever. The factors in this result were the great Treaty of Washington (1842), negotiated, as Daniel Web ster, Tyler's Secretary of State...
There was no war, and Tyler's patient negotiation contrasted with Lincoln's conduct, who with the dissolution of the Union staring him in the face made no attempt, as President-elect, to aid Tyler's peace efforts as Virginia Commissioner to Buchanan and as President of the Peace Convention. After Lincoln's inauguration his mind appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary...
...Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program was too radical to be practical. He became an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, unionizing railroaders, stockyard workers, steel hands. His program for Labor included education of trade-union members to make them fit for political action. He turned Communist about five years...
Fifteen states of the Union were represented in the contest. New York and Connecticut led all other states in number of men on the two teams with three each...
...Jones 17 31-42 H. Fowler 40 DUNSTER 14-24 L. B. Osborne 17 25-41 W. P. Salmon 33 42-56 E. B. Otis 56 GRAYS East Entry R. I. Hunneman 6 Room Middle Entry L. Batchelder 18 West Entry H. Z. Lake 25 HARVARD UNION E. W. Remick 12 HOLLIS South Entry Arthur Holbrook 5 North Entry F. W. Green 27 HOLWORTHY West Entry R. W. Herr 5 Middle Entry F. B. Cutts 14 East Entry William Mulford 22 LIONEL South Entry W. C. Peet 5 North Entry R. M. Cunningham 9 LITTLE Floors...