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...more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: To Chasten & Cherish | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...eight cofounders, David Dubinsky, thought C. I. O., the Congress, would re duce the chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...chasten our libertine hope and abide...

Author: By Eugene LOUIS Belisle, | Title: CLASS ODE | 6/16/1931 | See Source »

With cries of "Clear out the Jews" thousands of young men, belonging to the violently anti-Semite Hackenkreutzer (Swastika) organization, broke through the police cordons, began what they sportively called a "Jew hunt." Anti-Zionist Jews supported-"Christian Vienna" in its attempt to chasten their brethren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionists | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...thing may tend to chasten insurgent Republicans, however, and that is Senator Brookhart's close hunt in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Old | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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