Word: industrialistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private industrialist is preferable to the private merchant and will be of great assistance to us at present, when we are unable to supply the peasants' needs for manufactured articles and textiles. The state cannot now neglect private capital. . . . Private industrialists must have the privilege of importing machinery and raw material with which to establish factories...
Four august gentlemen have been inspecting the British coal industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the Royal Coal Commission. Last week they released a report of staggering dimensions touching upon every phase of the coal industry, which Premier Baldwin was obliged to subsidize for nine months, beginning Aug. 1, 1925, in order to avert a general strike (TIME, Aug. 10). The four gentlemen recommended that...
...many months, M. Peret has fallen heir to the seemingly insoluble fiscal problems of France. His immediate predecessor, Senator Doumer, failed to solve them, although he is one of the greatest fiscal experts in France. His predecessor was, of course, M. Loucheur, "the richest man in France," a great industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week-sent to the Senate those clauses of the tax bill which...
Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...