Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsibility for the destinies of the State, I swear to God Almighty-One in the Holy Trinity-as President of the Republic, to defend the sovereign rights of the State; to guard its dignity; to enforce the Constitution Act; to apply equal justice to all citizens; to ward off evil and danger from the State and to consider the care for its welfare my supreme duty. So help me God and the Holy Passion of His Son. Amen...
...hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from 35 to 37½ At Manchester, Conn. 1,200 silk workers threatened to strike against a 5% to 20% wage cut imposed by Ward Cheney, great NRAdvocate, head of Cheney Bros. He backed down...
Colonel Sir Albert Lambert Ward is a Conservative M. P., a War hero, an expert rifle shot, and a onetime Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and to the Secretary of State for War. A careless step of his last week took the House of Commons back hundreds of years...
From the front Government bench soldierly Sir Lambert Ward had hoisted himself up to plead the Government's case on a bill. In excitement he moved farther & farther out toward the centre of the hall. Suddenly came hoots of laughter and great cries of "Order! Order!" Sir Lambert looked around in bewilderment, hesitated, looked at his feet, jumped back...
...home with Joseph Shipulo, took one step through the door, inhaled and pulled Joseph back out the door. When the police came, they found Mrs. Shipulo two weeks dead. When finally Joseph understood that his wife was not asleep, he went raving mad, was taken to a hospital psychopathic ward. In the mattress on which he had lain beside his putrefying wife, police found $1,620 cash, two Liberty bonds, a bankbook showing $350 deposits and a dozen mortgages...