Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Ramsay Steel-Mait-land, Minister of Labor: "The reasons why the Government introduces this bill, which is designed to suspend the Seven Hours Act only temporarily, are based upon a plain convincing fact: last year, apart from the Government's Coal Subsidy [TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.], over two-thirds of the great coal exporting firms operated at a loss. . . . The only way of meeting this situation, in the opinion of the Government, is an immediate but not permanent extension in the hours of labor...
...bill) : "Even now I believe that after this bill is passed a settlement satisfactory to all may be reached if the Miners Federation will cooperate to increase the efficiency of the coal industry by accepting the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission's report." (TIME, Oct. 19 et...
...news gatherers King Alfonso said: "I have been and am still an ardent partisan of the League of Nations. . . . But, if we do not obtain the definite satisfaction which is due to Spain [i.e., a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 29 et seq. LEAGUE)], we could be induced not to have the same interest in the League as heretofore" (i.e., an intimation that Spain is not irrevocably resolved upon withdrawing from the League, but still hopes for a permanent seat...
...both Super-Tuchuns swore brotherly fealty, at Peking, last week and prepared to direct in concert the carrying through of their recently successful campaign against the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, April 5 et seq.), who dominated Peking until its capture by subordinate generals of Chang and Wu (TIME...
...urging mental health measures-until the legislative assembly of 800 adopted resolutions for the year. Chief of these was an endorsement of the Curtis-Reed bill, still pending in Congress, providing, not for Federal subsidy of education, but for putting Education on a footing equal to Agriculture, Commerce, War et al, in the nation's councils. The bill's backers would seek appropriations of $1,500,000 per annum to support the Secretary of Education, to conduct the pedagogical research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly...