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Unfortunately the same chemical activity that makes white phosphorus glow in the dark also makes it poison the workmen in the factories and occasionally kill a mouse or an inquiring baby, so that matches of this sort were practically taxed out of existence by Federal law some years...
Meanwhile, War Lord Léon Trotsky raged in Moscow. "We will never agree that the Bessarabian workmen and peasants shall remain under the iron heel of the Rumanian nobles. We will not make war and we will strive to avoid it by all means. This, however, does not mean that we agree to the present situation. The Soviet Government will use all its power to liquidate the conflict peacefully. If its efforts are unsuccessful, however, this will be due to a desire on the part of the other side to aggravate the situation...
...Workmen engaged yesterday in chipping away the base of the stone map in front of University Hall, were preparing this site for the reception of the statue of John Harvard, now standing in the delta by Memorial Hall, according to information obtained last night from W. S. Burke, Inspector of Grounds and Buildings...
...wire, was investigated, but but quickly rejected. A far more likely explanation lays the cause of the fire to a nest, built by either birds or mice, in which a match might have been used in the process of construction and then accidently ignited. Another fireman suggested that the workmen who had been repairing the southern side of the roof the evening before might have carelessly dropped a match or a cigarette. The chief, however, regarded it unlikely that the fire could have smoldered so long without breaking...
...always notable results. The French Revolution might be called an example; the Russian Revolution, another, and the success of the Labor Party in England a third. Such an alliance is not as outlandish as some are inclined to think. It is, in fact, an alliance of experts--of skilled workmen, although the laborer works with a trained hand while the "intellectual" works with a trained brain. A mutual respect prevails, based on a mutual appreciation of highly necessary qualities. And it is hardly exaggeration to say that the "intellectuals" of recent years--ever since there was a real labor movement...