Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Point was lent by last week's stock-taking to a remark by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE) that "It may take years" for the U. S. to thrash out the whole matter of World Court reservations by diplomatic notes among the interested powers...
...Debated with exemplary decorum a Labor resolution calling for an inquiry into the propriety of Cabinet Ministers associating themselves in any way with corporations having contracts with the Government. Laborite Arthur Henderson alleged that Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain is associated with at least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above...
...Were informed by Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain that one out of every seven Englishmen who reach the age of 30 ultimately dies of cancer. "But," said Mr. Chamberlain, "a cure for cancer will come. . . . Tuberculosis, once thought incurable, is now the most curable of diseases...
Married. George Earle Chamberlain, 72, onetime Senator (1909-21) from Oregon and Governor (1903-09) of that State; to Mrs. Carolyn B. Shelton, 49, at Norfolk...
...Shelton was clerk to the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate when the then Senator Chamberlain was conspicuous as its chairman during...