Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Pugh, for many years a steelworker, now chairman of the Trade Union Council, represented the focus of the entire general strike. His chief strike lieutenants, outside his personal Tsardom (steel), were: A. J. Cook (Coal); J. H. Thomas (Railways); Ben Tillet (Docks...
...Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners stood by the slogan of their fiery Secretary, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook: "Not a penny off wages, not a minute off working hours." Despite Premier Baldwin's efforts at mediation, which he continued literally day and night, the Owners' Association "locked out" the miners when the subsidy expired last week, and simultaneously the Miners' Federation "struck...
...Emperor" Cook...
...conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually prepared by the cook to kill Pasha. This inscrutable animal lives on, after the youth is dead, a silent, stately monopolist of morbidly curious attention, in the minds of the English protagonists...
Pilgrim. At the Hyde Park Hotel, London, there arrived last week James Hazen Hyde, founder and onetime president of the potent U.S. Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde was attended by a cook, a librarian and twelve other khitmutgars. He took a suite overlooking Hyde Park. Said he: "I am on a pilgrimage. My family's former estate was Hyde Park. Four hundred years ago they lived at Hyde Park Manor House, later confiscated by Henry VIII...