Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workmen of the Maintenance department yesterday transported to its final resting place in Memorial Hall a replica of the John Harvard statute in front of University Hall, which was cast for use in the recent Tercentenary Parade in Boston...
...absurd the mistakes of Mr. O'Connell-who is made a production manager-become, the more remarkable his feats appear to the cinema people. At the final curtain, when Cinemagnate Glogauer learns that by some addle-pated order of Mr. O'Connell's a gang of workmen have come to tear the studio down, he hesitates for just a moment and then cries, "Tell them to go ahead...
Berlin went Red last week. The rest of the nation swung toward Brown.* Everyone admitted, on the morning after, that Republican Germany's sixth election had been her biggest, most expensive, most hysterical. There has been no poll so startling since 1912. when German workmen went Pink for the first time, rebuked Kaiser Wilhelm with a thumping Socialist vote which the War Lord refused to heed...
Result: Demagog Hitler's Fascist party (named "National Socialist" to mislead workmen) rose last week from ninth to second rank, from twelve Reichstag seats to 107, from joke to menace...
Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory-this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism...