Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workmen were seen clearing out the furniture in his office and it was generally assumed, and later found to be correct that the old office of Comptroller was a thing of the past. Then to the outside world was revealed the extent of the changes which President Conant was planning to make...
...originated democratic Work Camps as a new form of education, and took a leading part in the Camps, for students, workmen and farmers together, which were finally established in Silesia. From those camps he was called to the Chair of History and Sociology at the University of Breslau. There he published a great work on "Revolutions in European History...
John Gilbert Winant, Republican Governor of New Hampshire, for many years a champion of measures to shorten working hours, set minimum wages, provide workmen's compensation, forbid child labor...
...fools of today they tried to 'show the world they could take it.' They would lounge around at tables and drink a quart of absinthe a day and boast about it. Finally they got where they drank their daily quart of absinthe straight, without mixing it with anything. French workmen began to copy their habits. So France made the sale of absinthe illegal?in France! French absinthe makers were permitted to continue making absinthe for export. France wasn't worked about what absinthe did to anybody except the French in France! As a matter of fact one, two or three...
...Prince and Princess put off their U. S. tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...