Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Independent did not choose a Secretary of Labor, in which office James J. Davis has had but one predecessor?William B. Wilson...
...France has no more than aimed at the British score, content with mere de facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
...Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile he had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor. President Roosevelt appointed him a U. S. member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1902 and again in 1908; Woodrow Wilson repeated the appointment in 1912 and again in 1920. President Wilson found his advice and services great help in getting the Covenant of the League...
...election, which must come not later than 1929. A Liberal cloud, once "no bigger than a man's hand," is swelling notably puffed by the "Hearst of England," Lord Rothermere, who recently shifted his always opportunist support from Stanley Baldwin to David Lloyd George (TIME, Nov. 7). Since Labor is not likely to emerge weakened from the coming conflict, a Liberal resurgence would slash deep into the Conservative majority. Before such a slash is attempted, Stanley Baldwin, most negative of British Prime Ministers, must toughen the resistance of his party by displaying positive, constructive leadership...
...House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote) was taken. Into the "nays" lobby rushed Conservative Viscounts Astor, Liberal David Lloyd George, Laborite James Henry Thomas (famed "balance wheel of British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons...