Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West is reviving under better grain prices and rapidly maturing crops. Money continues easy, and now the fear of higher rates because of crop financing is being allayed. But industry is very dull, although not sufficient wage-cuts or layoffs have been occasioned to injure retail merchandising. Even the stock market has acted somewhat weary and dispirited, despite strength in utility stocks and the better railroads...
...Upon this issue I am ready to enlist with you to wage increasing warfare until the American people have been restored to the full attainment of their political and economic rights...
Every generation must wage a new war for freedom against new forces that seek through new devices to enslave mankind...
...angels will find themselves tarred with the same brush as the hitherto ruling sex. Conveying this thought is a young wife who is virtually dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
...continue. Politics he considers of only minor importance as far as the fundamentals are concerned. To his mind, the curtailment of acreage now being accomplished by wheat-growers, whose output had been artificially stimulated during the War period, is symbolic of what industrial concerns must do. Nor, under present wage scales, does he think new outlets for surplus American products can readily be found...