Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incensed by London's stand, New Zealand's Armstrong thundered: "The British Government and British employers, who for years have been the keystone of the opposition to shorter hours, this time have been virtually abandoned by all the Dominion Governments and have had to keep India working more than usual to support their arguments publicly. The movement among the self-governing Dominions away from British toward American leadership on labor questions- which began with the American entry into the I. L. C.-has now developed to this point...
...regulated on the New York Pepper Futures Market, daily fluctuations are limited to 1? per lb. per day and pepper stocks must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper on the market. But this is the fifth year since new plantings matured...
...Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that ten interned Germans be put to death for every British child or woman killed by bombs. He made...
Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama schools. He went to Alabama College as assistant to the president in 1922, succeeded his superior four years later. At 45 he is a husky, reticent man devoted to his sons Oliver Cromwell Jr., 17, and Fred...
...late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing a new catechism, was so impressed with his qualities that in 1926 Father Mooney was drafted into the Church's diplomatic service, made a titular archbishop. Archbishop Mooney was appointed Apostolic Delegate first to India, later to Japan-first U. S. prelate ever to be so titled and sent abroad as the Pope's permanent agent...