Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...War, Victor Berger said, "The chief fruits . . . for us have been Prohibition, the flu and the national debt...
...Southern industrial leaders are still clinging to the discarded and discredited wage theories and working conditions of the pre-War period. It is still believed and practiced that low rates of pay are synonymous with low labor costs. . . . The labor union has not been accepted as a permanent and inevitable institution in modern industrial life...
...Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
...made a treaty with the Seminole Indians* whereby they ceded their Florida lands to the U. S., promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42), fiercest of Indian struggles, followed. Defeated, the Seminoles fled, some to Arkansas, many more into the murky wilderness of the Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their...
When he first went to Europe, in 1904, he traveled chiefly in Italy where his taste became fixed for the delicacies of the Renaissance. After the War he abandoned all other interests for design. A luxurious Locomobile brochure astonished advertisers. He has since prospered...