Word: laboring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James Ramsay Macdonald, onetime ( Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier, Leader of the Labor party: "We admit that the British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
...order to understand what he attempted to do. Without such a notion one is sure to get lost in the confusion of styles, aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are composed with such violence and passion. As a broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected and even liked him." They could not help reacting favorably to his obvious sincerity, earestness and courage...
...likewise retaliated upon Britain. Nationalist (southern) Foreign Minister Eugene Chen promptly broke off negotiations concerning the safety of Britons and their property in China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took the unprecedented and insulting course of ignoring the British Government and cabling over its head an appeal to the British Labor Party. Chen declared that "the British decline in Far Asia" will continue "until British Labor is entrusted by England with the task . . . of substituting the statesmanship of peace and productive work for the [British] Tory statesmanship of imperialism, war and Byzantine glory." Churchill Explodes. Though the British Government could...
...publishing her ravishing picture without permission. But that was before the Misses Macfadden grew up and before their father had found what pictures money can buy honestly. Kind-hearted President Taft once had to come to Mr. Macfadden's aid to spare him two years of hard labor for an article on "Growing to Manhood." But since then the latitude permitted "educational" matter has increased and Mr. Macfadden has doubtless forgotten the $2,000 fine he paid in the dismal dawn of this porno-glorious century...
Roger was consigned again to the limbo of medieval credulity. Dean Robert Bell Burke of Pennsylvania, after four years' labor with the key discovered by a colleague, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only...