Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witnesses were kept in agonized suspense, of New Haven trains stopping to alter their schedules at every siding, water-tank, and town boundary in the state of Connecticut, of Farmers' Associations threatening to retire from business if the Daylight Saving Ordinonce were adopted, and Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same state of mind as the old lady who declared not long ago that she "hoped that some day the clocks would tell time according to the will of the Almighty, instead of mixing up with Democratic politics...
...Saturday afternoon the party will disband after a game with Columbia on the Columbia diamond...
...than attendants of a machine, something more than cogs in an industrial system dominated by machinery owned and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters of themselves. Labor understands fully that powerful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their power to manipulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their movement...