Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other...
...fields of law, medicine, education, religion, business, labor, banking, government, journalism, engineering, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, and biology are represented on the committee...
Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...House of Lords, the big, sharp-tongued Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India in the late Baldwin Cabinet, sneered that the Labor Government "have mishandled the Indian situation in every conceivable way at every conceivable stage. . . . They have been frightened by the threats of Indian extremists. . . . Their explanations of what they have done have been confused and mutually inconsistent...
...shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...