Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted an amendment permitting manufacturers and organized labor to intervene in customs cases involving valuation and classification of imported merchandise; rejected an amendment permitting them to intervene in customs cases involving reappraisement and protest against collectors decisions...
Divorced. Dudley Field Malone, lawyer, onetime (1913-17) Collector of the Port of New York, Woodrow Wilson confidant, legal advisor to publicites (James Joseph Tunney, Gertrude Ederle); by Mrs. Doris Stevens Malone, oldtime "suffragette," onetime advisor to the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; at Paris. Grounds: desertion. They first met when she, a member of the National Women's Party, campaigned against Wilson (1916) whom he, a Democrat, supported...
...canny, wrinkle-eyed ex-Premier William Morris ("Billy") Hughes to issue a call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...
...returns came in on election night last week, opposition members gravely I-told-you-soed, for Premier Bruce not only went down to defeat, but carried the entire Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor. Chosen to succeed Stanley Bruce as Prime Minister of Australia was a sober middle-aged journalist and laborite, James Henry Scullin. As news of a Labor victory was broad cast, newsgatherers collected at the home of Australia's previous Labor Premier, Edward Theodore, likely candidate for the post of National Treasurer...
Other Characters. At the Front, frenzied and weary men lose their individuality, but those who stay at home reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...