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...women schoolteachers, whose voice is heard most strongly in the National Union of Teachers, have been agitating for some years to obtain sex equality on the payroll. Last year the Board of Education adopted a scale granting women 83% of men's pay and the contest has grown hotter since...
...reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through the saloon an influence on public affairs. As owners of saloons, the beer men were the chief dispensers of hotter drink. Thus that part of the dry population which remembers saloon days, does not easily distinguish between the mildness of beer and the ferocity...
...baiting of Senator James Thomas Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn...
...summer it gets hotter than Dutch love up there where I work and as a rule I take off every stitch I have on before beginning to work. And then I get splinters in my feet. When there was a kitchen down below it was even worse...
...Prince walked quickly through the President's Room and entered the President's closed automobile, at the door of which stood Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. As the Prince passed through the Capitol grounds and down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, the people made themselves still hotter by cheering lustily the speeding automobile...