Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas on the Grill. Puffed with optimism after his famed trade-questing trip to Canada (TIME, Sept. 2), Lord Privy Seal James Henry Thomas ("Privy Seal Jim"), Minister in Charge of Unemployment, told the House of Commons that "by next year our trouble will be not how to get customers in Canada but how to get enough ships to take our coal and goods there fast enough to fill their orders...
...arranged for the flood of orders which has yet to burst. Then, getting back to England, he outlined a ?42,000,000 ($204,120,000) program of unemployment relief. Straightway this was denounced by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George as "unintelligent, pusillanimous, and ineffective!" At Privy Seal Jim the Welshman jibed, "You-ran away to Canada when you should have been here working out a real solution. I am surprised that the Prime Minister...
Concluded Privy Seal Jim: "I have found no magic remedy for unemployment"-and it was all too evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the House voted a resolution enabling Mr. Thomas to go ahead with his plans. Sharpest criticism came from burly James Maxton, leader of the extreme Left Laborite faction. After flaying the Government for "compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some...
...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
...press last evening the CRIMSON had received the following election returns--Richard M. Russell '14 was elected mayor of Cambridge by 4,000 votes over the present mayor. Edward W. Quinn Jimmy Walker was re-elected mayor of New York by a lead of over 300,000 votes. Jim Curley was leading his nearest rival for the office of mayor of Boston by 18,000 votes...