Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board" of big business and labor leaders; 3) creation of a "National Coal Marketing Board" to coordinate the whole industry and present a united front to the coal trusts of continental Europe...
Thus the Government won by a humiliating majority of eight. The 14 Clydesiders, who are supposed to be Laborites (i. e. Socialists), showed their Communist colors by abstaining. All but two Liberals turned against Mr. MacDonald. And the only thing that saved his government from falling was the abstention of 32 of his avowed enemies, the Conservatives, who are afraid to risk a general election now while Scot MacDonald is in the heyday of his Hoover prestige...
...been a farmer, a soldier in Russia's wars, killing many people. He had gone to the monastery to be purified but had found too much comfort (two meals per day, four hours of sleep, eight hours of prayer or meditation, the rest work). So he had climbed the mountain to be alone...
Married. Helen Wills, champion lady tennis player; and Frederick S. Moody Jr., San Francisco broker; at Berkeley, Cal. At the simple ceremony witnessed by only eight people, Miss Wills wore a tailored suit, was unattended...
...David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When the Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded (1845), Buchanan was made Superintendent. A stern disciplinarian, he once unbent so far as to forward the following application from 38 cadets to the Secretary of the Navy: "Sir-We the undersigned midshipmen of the Naval School at Annapolis...