Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the bill appropriating $89,820,000 to run the Departments of State, Labor and Justice. The Administration's Navy-building program appeared blocked, so the President agreed to cut down on it if Congress would at least authorize building 25 cruisers (see p. 9). Fresh warnings emanated from the White House on tax-cutting, tariff-tampering, flood control, shipping policy, etc., etc. Congress had sat long and done little. Should it become extravagant to make up for lost time, vetoes might ensue...
...Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up as a Third House of Congress-"House of Technologists" was the best name he could think of at the moment. Let business, finance, agriculture, labor, transportation, education, etc., etc., elect their own variously specialized representatives to such a Third House, said Dr. Frank, so that the lines of economic force in the U. S., which no longer parallel what remains of old political demarcations, might cease colliding with and cancelling one another...
...frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...
...They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...
Bright lights in the gloom were last week's reports that the Ford Motor Co. was employing 92,317 (the week before, 91,616) and that the Youngstown, Ohio, district would absorb surplus steel mill labor as soon as spring weather permitted construction operations...