Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main proviso: The employer of an habitual drunkard shall pay half his wages to his wife or family...
Facts. His father was a drunkard, his mother a consumptive. But he was a rugged babe when born near Mill Springs, Mo., in 1868. Delirium tremens and Death. as they must to all such drinkers, soon came to his father; his mother sent him away to relatives. When soon after, she died also, the boy overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge...