Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur and nurse, having broken her ankle on vacation...
...Ambassador, Charles Gates Dawes, arrived (without pipe, for the spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor Chief, for the general good it might do England...
...certain stocks on Change; Russian recognition; Unemployment; the Coal Mining situation; Slum Clearance. It acquiesced in the appointment of the keen little Crippled Chancellor as Acting Prime Minister. Also the Cabinet listened to its chief's words of regret about having to miss the impending conclave of the Labor Party at Brighton.* Finally, of course, the Prime Minister explained once more why he was going abroad...
Voyage. As his penultimate word to the Daily Herald, Labor's organ, Prime Minister MacDonald said...
...four work days and one day of rest. Saturday, Sunday and all religious holidays are abolished but there are five national holidays: Jan. 9, anniversary of the massacre of Socialists in front of the Winter Palace in 1905; Jan. 21, anniversary of the death of Lenin; May 1, international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices will close, that though Russian workmen labor on a four-day shift, Russian industry operates...