Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor in power will remove the unjustified restrictions upon trades union activity introduced by the Tory Government in 1927. . . . The party pledges itself to reverse immediately the harsh policy of the National [MacDonald] Government in reducing unemployment benefits [the dole...
...Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed certain of gaining the ear of Congress this winter. The 21 railroad unions (including the unaffiliated Brotherhoods), whose industry has laid off 250,000 men in a year, demanded a six-hour day to bring men back to work. President Green assured...
...bankers; 2) to wring cancellation of War Debts & Reparations from President Hoover* 3) to reorganize British industry a la Russe under an X-Year Plan; 4) to restore to British unions the right to organize another British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926); 5) to increase British dole payments (British unemployed added up to an official all-time record total of 2,825,772 last week, almost 10% of the electorate...
...most momentous sessions in U. S. history. It will have to ratify or reject President Hoover's moratorium on Europe's debts. With a huge Treasury deficit on hand, it will have to debate taxation. At the same time it will debate a national Dole and, though the American Legion voted self-denial, there will be a fight to pay the Bonus in cash, in part if not in full. With Bar, Labor and Legion behind them, the Wet members will more militantly than ever agitate altering Prohibition. The World Court and disarmament are two other live issues...
John McGovern, a Laborite M. P. who was suspended from the House of Commons in July because he refused to leave the Chamber until forcibly ejected (TIME, July 13), attempted to lead a parade of jobless dole-drawers through the streets of Glasgow last week. Police inspectors were waiting for him, told him that he could not march. The crowd of sullen workmen in grimy caps grew & grew. There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons...