Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxes toward "the upkeep of this great mysterious social sham which towers in importance over questions of national and international import." After thoroughly flaying everyone else concerned, he urged that a seat at table be found for Mr. Gann and that, if no other solution could be reached, the whole affair be submitted to the World Court...
...Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who is also president of the State Federation of Labor, investigated these strikes and reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike is in no sense a rebellion against improved textile machinery." One weaver, for example, the committee found...
...freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet unrestrainedly. Next door there is a brass-railed Bowery...
...Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...
...make money. And while Cuban production fell from 5,125,970 tons in 1925 to 4,011,717 tons in 1928, the world crop, swelled by many a new cane and beet plantation, rose from 23,687,000 to 25,326,000. Cuba then supplied only 16% of the whole. World markets were seriously unsettled...