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...Learned with visible relief that James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner who as Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Employment has conspicuously failed to solve the unemployment problem (TIME, June 17, 1929, et seq.), had resigned. After appointing him Minister of Dominions,* last week, the Prime Minister penned these graceful words for the Laborite Daily Herald: "The grave question of unemployment . . . has suddenly increased to intensity all the world over, owing to causes beyond the control of this, or, indeed, of any single nation. The problem is different in kind and degree from that which faced us [the Cabinet...
...dressed and had eaten supper, telegrams began arriving from Seattle. The Chamber of Commerce wanted to know when she was coming home. Great plans had been made-a band, a banquet, a car with flowers & flags and room beside Helene for her father. Charles William Madison, honest Seattle cleaner-and-dyer. Obscure Seattlites got into print by telling how she learned to do the dog-paddle in Green Lake...
Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...
...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Boston censorship is like a vacuum cleaner; it beats everything; it finds the hidden dirt, and it makes considerable noise in doing so. Just recently Mayor Nichols has decided to ban the stage version of "Strange Interlude." Although the Watch and Ward Society is considering the suppression of the book, it may still be purchased in any local bookstore, so that he who runs fast enough may read...