Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nodded approval as the Ministry of Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...
...Miss Fairneld is famed in England for being a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a doctor of medicine, a bachelor of surgery, a barrister of the Middle Temple (law) a diplomat in public health...
...Debated with exemplary decorum a Labor resolution calling for an inquiry into the propriety of Cabinet Ministers associating themselves in any way with corporations having contracts with the Government. Laborite Arthur Henderson alleged that Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain is associated with at least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above...
...Were informed by Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain that one out of every seven Englishmen who reach the age of 30 ultimately dies of cancer. "But," said Mr. Chamberlain, "a cure for cancer will come. . . . Tuberculosis, once thought incurable, is now the most curable of diseases...
...heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...