Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April 25, et...
...capabilities are subject for common discourse, still even the editorial boards of the Nation and the New Republic, if not the Independent, would admit that to him as to all men there come darkmoments, and that the rising hour abounds with them. To give weighty decisions on China, Nicaragua, et at early hours in the morning is no pleasure; especially when buckwheat cakes and the Coolidge presidential Vermont syrup stands complacently before the speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice...
...Lords and Commons assembled beside the Thames. Players: all the chief Ministers of Premier Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet and virtually all the major protagonists of the Liberal and Labor opposition. Second act: the second reading of the Government's drastic Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9 et ante) ?a bill designed to put British labor into a legal straight jacket strong enough to prevent the recurrence of the General Strike (TIME...
...Seattle landed Professor Theodore Hobbie, returning last week from his occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from...
Thus did Judge David F. Dillon of the Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge, Mass., last week probate ten Harvard students and a tobacco-shop proprietor, who took part in a flinging of eggs, ice, bottles, epithets, at Cambridge police in Harvard Square, last winter (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). Each of the roisterers was required to give surety of $100 "to keep the peace and be of good behavior." Jail sentences which had been imposed by a lower court were not mentioned; hence, were dropped...