Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House where it was agreed that the Commission must be overhauled if it were to serve as a protection to U. S. water rights. In accordance with the President's wishes Senator Couzens returned to the capital to introduce a bill for a full-time com-mission of three members (salary: $10,000 per year) with an adequate staff...
...straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded to take scathing note: "Snowden has poured out his scorn: Lloyd George has been moved to put on his full warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire." In a ringing appeal for contributions to the new party's fund, last week, Baron Beaverbrook declared that all receipts and expenditures will...
...credit Scot MacDonald resisted temptation, conferred as to means of com promise during half the night with snowy-headed Charles Alfred Cripps, onetime vicar, ist Baron Parmoor, and leader of the 14 Labor Peers who, absurdly enough, represent the largest British political party in the House of Lords...
Last week, with the current season waning fast, musicians and musicians' managers concerned themselves with plans for next year. Like any other business, goes music in the U. S. Artists are the com- modities monopolized by a few wholesale managers who sell to retail or local managers who in turn sell concerts to the public. Last week many a sales letter went out from Manhattan wholesalers' offices. Some 25 musical salesmen conferred with local dealers directly, boasted of the talents of their particular artists, haggled over prices. From their sales results, from box-office returns of the past...
...respondents facing a dire dearth of news cornered Mr. Henderson and chorused, "Come on, tell us how you came to be called 'Uncle Arthur!" "Certainly, gentlemen," said "R. M.'s Y. M.," beaming. "A long time ago one of the oldest members of the House of Com mons called me 'Uncle.' Others overheard him, and since then I have always been dubbed 'Uncle Arthur.' I don't mind. I consider it a term of endearment...