Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many whose hearts were not particularly touched by Ishbel Macdonald's praiseworthy interest in George Washington, prepared to greet her father as one of the few Great Men of today. Not the least of his achievements was to build up the potent British Labor party out of thousands of unionized workers whom he taught to realize that what they could not win by strikes and violence they might gain in the halls of Parliament...
...room shanty was the birthplace of Ramsay Macdonald, and night school was his college; but he won through toil and newspaper scrivening to become Britain's first and sole Labor Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924). At that time, though his term of office was short, he became the first statesman in Europe to chairman the drafting of a negotiated agreement with post-War Germany. This was the London Settlement of Aug. 14, 1924, on the basis of which the Dawes Plan went into effect and France abandoned her ruthless occupation of the Ruhr...
...followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
...prepared excitedly last week for a great moment now imminent in their history, the opening of a capital city closely patterned on, but designed to eclipse, Washington, D. C. On a high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...
...grill, answering questions which disputed the veracity of the official British- version of events at Nanking (TIME, April 4) when Chinese rioted and U. S. and British gunboats shelled the city. Finally, in the House of Commons, Captain Duff-Cooper (Conservative) asked Sir Austen whether he knew that the Labor weekly, published by George Lansbury, M. P. (Opposition) had actually declared that the members of the Baldwin Cabinet are collectively responsible for the loss of life at Nanking. "So they are!" shouted Mr. Lansbury. "What I said in type I repeat here...