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...show that he meant every word about the 40-hour week M. Daladier sent Senegalese troops to work as longshoremen on the docks at Marseille. Glistening with sweat, the Senegalese-sharpshooters all-carried backbreaking loads of cabbages, asparagus, oranges, lemons, which for the past month Marseille longshoremen, having worked their 40 hours, have refused to move at night or on Sundays...
...Citizens who are struggling to keep abreast of modern techniques of eating, dressing, plumbing and commuting. He has paused in the marathon to express his opinions on some of the more irritating aspects of his existence. His likes and dislikes are typically those of city-dwellers who curse and sweat over far-rolling collar-buttons, wives who make their husbands wait, parties next door, Blue Mondays, and socks that shrink uncontrollably. His comical fumings over the enraging trivialities of everyday life inevitably reduce the reader to howls of laughter over his own experiences with identical problems...
Manifesto on which the La Follette Progressive Party proposed to unite was summarized in five points which called for: 1) public "ownership and control of money and credit"; 2) restoring "to every American the absolute right to earn his living by the sweat of his brow"; 3) granting "the Executive branch power to get things done . . . with ample guarantees against . . . abuse of such power"; 4) security for "those who work on the farm and in the city . . . measured by ... contribution"; 5) no more "coddling or spoon-feeding . . . restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that...
...should say they will," asserted Warner.... "Primitive artists could not splash around with commercially marketed tools the way lots of modern artists do. They themselves had to create both their artworks with sweat and thought...
...Smarts produce plays in Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...