Word: etting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million striking British coal miners (TIME, May 10, et seq.) all beginning to feel the pinch of living upon meagre union doles, awaited with anxious expectancy last week Premier Baldwin's long heralded address to the Commons outlining proposed legislation to end the strike...
...standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into...
Copies of this latter version caught the eye of George V, Rex et Imperator. An hour later commotion ensued at the French Foreign office. Someone had blundered. Apologies to the King-Emperor were forthcoming, retractions in the press, honeyed words anent the coal strike...
Maimed German War veterans exhibiting their stumps, shouting "We fought! You vote!" were motored by Communists and Socialists about German cities last week in an effort to rouse sluggish citizens for the great Referendum (TIME, June 21 et ante) held to deprive Wilhelm II and the erstwhile German nobility without compensation of property valued at five billion gold marks previously seized by the Reich...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...