Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Everyone either works or is kept by someone else!" snapped Lady Rhondda in a statement to reporters. "It is strange that Mr. Thomas, a Socialist, should be advocating idleness for any section of the community. It is ridiculous to say that it is against the interests of the nation for...
"We think the Thomas statement is simply scandalous!" chirped pretty Miss Florence Underwood, Secretary of the British Women's Freedom League. "Like the old Adam, he is just trying to blame women for everything, even unemployment."
This appeared perilously near truth. As Minister of Unemployment. "Privy Seal Jim" can point to few achievements. Last week he parried 15 specific questions in the House as to what if anything he is doing to find work for Britain's 1,295,000 unemployed, with the statement: "I am...
Instantly the Commons was in such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference...
Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint...