Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Families. Politics is increasingly a family affair in England. With Ramsay MacDonald in Downing Street will be his hostess-daughter, Ishbel. Behind him on the Labor government benches will sit his son, Malcolm. With Malcolm, looking across at his overthrown Conservative father, will be Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley. Sharing Lloyd George's balance-of-power on the Liberal benches will be the Welshman's round-faced daughter, Megan, and his son, Major Gwilym...
...parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that he was engaged to marry Ramsay's Ishbel. For campaigning purposes he affected a fuzzy chinpiece, Byronic hair and gestures...
...squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...
...predicament arose when Mr. Ford asked the League's International Labor Office to collect statistics on real wages in various European countries. Mr. Ford wanted to pay workmen in his foreign plants the same real wages that he pays his U. S. workmen. So he asked the Labor Office to determine what wages he should pay Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, Germans, so that they should be on equal terms with each other and with U. S. Ford employes...
Willing was the Labor Office to collect this information-willing, but not able. It had for some time been working on wage statistics, but needed from $20,000 to $30,000 to collect figures on the scale Mr. Ford requested...