Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Expressed sincere relief at news that onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now visiting the U. S. (TIME, April 18), was rapidly recovering at Philadelphia from his attack of tonsilitis (TIME, Jan. 25), while his daughter, Ishbel Macdonald, pinch-spoke? for her father before various gatherings, which he had promised to address...
Ramsay Macdonald, onetime Labor Premier, now visiting the U. S.: "It is with emotion that I behold the empty grave where lie our ruined industries...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly...
...place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor it is finding in non-academic circles...