Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Wheatley (onetime Laborite Minister of Health) : "The Government's slogan seems to be, 'Our class, right or wrong. . . .' The German miners have to work eight hours instead of seven to pay war reparations. If our miners work eight hours to compete with them, the Germans will have to work nine. . . . Who gains, except our ruling class...
...term credits backed by the gold reserve of the Bank of France with Messrs. Benjamin Strong and Montague Norman, governors respectively of the Federal Reserve Bank of Manhattan and the Bank of England. Both gentlemen remained quietly at Antibes, French Riviera, throughout the week, informed news gatherers that their health was rapidly improving in that salubrious climate. According to despatches they conferred daily by telephone with M. Cail-laux's agents...
...good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, 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...
...onetime Kaiserin, Auguste Victoria, arrived on the same day, much broken down in health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
...what does President Coolidge attribute his good health...