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...present they have next to nothing to show for their work. They are taking from the Ruhr but one per cent of the amount which the Germans delivered in an equal length of time in 1922, for besides the cost of hiring the mine workers, they also have to employ one soldier to guard each worker...
...well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
...good deal of hope in official quarters is placed in immigration. With the present shortage of labor France is forced to employ a great many foreign workers, many of whom have applied for naturalization...
...employ an Irish bull, the chief event of last week was one that didn't happen. Despite rumors in and out of Wall Street, the meeting of Governors of Federal Reserve Banks in Washington adjourned without proposing an advance in rediscount rates...
...syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board, attempted to prove that the defendant's advocacy of revolution...