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While refusing to say whether the $47.50 a month which the chasers receive constitutes a living wage, Metcalf defended it as standard pay for "errand boys." He revealed that to his knowledge no employees had yet been approached by any union, and added that the Library's attitude in case of efforts at unionization would be determined by University policy...
...stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured) but to the Country Hospital in Shanghai...
Just eight months ago King Edward VIII trudged through the coal dust of South Wales "Distressed Areas" on what the British press called his "errand of mercy" (TIME, Nov. 30). After looking at the treeless, blackened hillsides, the abandoned coal mines, the pitiful brick hovels, the haggard faces of the inhabitants, more than 45,000 of whom were unemployed and only 2,000 employed at the time, His Majesty exclaimed publicly: "Something must be done for Wales...
...middle of this period saw him sent on a second diplomatic errand to Italy to treat with Bernabo, tyrant of Milan, that "God of delit, and scourge of Lumbardye." Despite his business he discovered for himself Dante, Boccaccio, and Petarch, and the powerful city states of Genoa, Milan, and Florence enriched his observations. But his own London furnished him with the intimate knowledge of the many actors in his human comedy, and there he underwent an unconscious training for his masterpiece...
...Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...