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Once in office, he made it clear that he intended to stay there for life. He was ruthless with rivals. When a rebellion flared in the 1920s, he expelled the opposition leader and his entire local. In 1916, Big Bill settled a strike over the heads of 17,000 New York carpenters with a contract less favorable than one the employers had already conceded. When the carpenters protested, Hutcheson suspended 65 of their locals, and barred their delegates from the convention by putting cops at the door...
...Middle Ages, silver miners sickened and died of it. In the last century, cobalt and bismuth miners caught it. In the 1920s, the German government awarded compensation to the Schneeberg miners, and forbade them to work there more than two years in a row. Until the Reds took over, Schneeberger Krankheit affected only a score or so of miners a year. In the atomic age, the true nature of the illness has been revealed...
Mixed Motives. In the 1920s, the U.S. was already talking of giving "our little brown brothers" their independence-for a variety of motives. Powerful U.S. interests (sugar, tobacco, dairy, cottonseed and peanut oil, the West Coast labor unions) objected to the rivalry of cheap Filipino products and cheap Filipino labor. They were joined by U.S. liberals who squirmed when Filipinos quoted U.S. doctrine back at them-i.e., that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. The U.S. gave the Philippines partial independence in 1935, and set the date of complete independence...
There have been other ages when, in the name of art, the female figure has been cruelly repressed, e.g., in Victorian England, rigidly laced in its own stays, in China, where for 700 years women's feet were bound, and in the U.S. in the 1920s, when fashion decreed that women must be breastless...
...Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...