Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week...
...weapons, went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year's sentence at 12:50 p. m. Exactly 16 hrs. 35 min. elapsed between his arrest and the beginning of his sentence-a record. Remarked Capone: "They work fast here...
...Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation in his State...
...film storage room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling was on fire. He turned a fire extinguisher on it, was overcome by smoke, then literally blown out of the basement by an explosion...
Chairman Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee paused in his inspection of old Paris churches last week long enough to reveal his solution of an ancient political problem. To run Republican campaigns "without resorting to empty promises or breaths of scandal" Dr. Work will remove his activities from Washington, population centre of politicians, and occupy rented offices in Denver (his home). From these he is prepared to start the Hoover second-term movement at once...