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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good old Mac eventually appeared, smiling, hair tousled. Later it was announced that Finance Expert Snowden was to be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Union Worker Thomas was to receive the medieval title of Lord Privy Seal, to be charged with the most important of Labor's problems: solving unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Labor's Week | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Lloyd George seems unduly hurt," said Chancellor Churchill, "because I advise the electors not to be taken in by quackery, charlatanism and thimble-rigging.* I am always anxious not to irritate people unnecessarily, so I hereby announce that I will, for the future, in this election, drop the word charlatan and use instead the word 'cheapjack' as applied to Lloyd George's scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cheap-Jack | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Despite Chancellor Churchill, thousands of Britons daily continued putting down thousands of sixpence to buy copies of Mr. Lloyd George's Orange Book, a pamphlet explaining how the Liberals hope to end unemployment by putting the unemployed to work on a great state program of road building and other public works. "We mobilized for war, let us mobilize for prosperity!" reads the cover of the Orange Book. Above is a cut showing a huge, smiling Lloyd George, arms outstretched in a gesture suggestive of showering gold-pieces upon gladsome, marching files of tiny soldiers and workmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cheap-Jack | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...small portion of New York University's fame derives from the quasi-official Hall of Fame which was founded within its precincts and entrusted to its care in 1900 by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard at the suggestion of the late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Liberal Club, a recognized student activity, intended to hold a forum on the Mooney-Billings case in California,* received University permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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