Word: jovialness
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...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison as Minister to Uruguay and the transfer of jovial Joshua Butler Wright as Minister from Hungary to Uruguay...
...Supreme Court was with his wife at their summer home in Maine. It was vacation-time for him; his court would not sit again until Aug. 25. But on Aug. 5 he unexpectedly appeared at his official chambers in Manhattan. A tall, sleek, keen-minded, conscientious jurist, he was jovial off the bench, well-liked by his law students at New York University. He joshed a courthouse reporter about the judiciary scandals local newspapers were reporting, asked lightly: "Who's next?" Aug. 6 he ordered his chauffeur to be ready to drive back to Maine...
House Master Henderson. At the meeting of 239 Labor M. P.'s to debate Sir Oswald's motion against leaders MacDonald and Snowden, they were defended by jovial "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, Foreign Minister and a tolerably good Socialist...
Next morning Mr. Cosgrave, whose position as "President" is strikingly similar to that of a "Prime Minister," reported himself to his superior, the representative of King George V, jovial Governor- General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, who had rushed back from the Continent to Dublin to receive him. With the Dail's approval all members of the Irish Cabinet which fell fortnight ago were reinstated in their old ministries under President Cosgrave...