Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated with exemplary decorum a Labor resolution calling for an inquiry into the propriety of Cabinet Ministers associating themselves in any way with corporations having contracts with the Government. Laborite Arthur Henderson alleged that Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain is associated with at least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above...
...deemed significant that President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, an expert chemical engineer, has continued since his election (TIME, June 14) to labor in his spare time at the state chemical warfare laboratory...
...primary campaign) is not to elect him next November. Mr. Norris' plan of political surgery was the more happy because, oddly, the Democratic nominee happens to be a man of some note-William Bauchop Wilson, onetime Cabinet member under Woodrow Wilson, and the first Secretary of Labor...
...William Wilson made a favorable impression in the House while serving from 1907 to 1913, during which time he drafted a bill to create a Department of Labor. On its being established in 1913 President Wilson appointed him its first head. At an early age William Wilson had been employed in the Pennsylvania coal mines where his father, a Scotch immigrant, also worked. Eleven years discovered William a sturdy member of the labor union; 26, president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty...
...Grew restless as the hour of their august dinners approached and the Earl de la Warr, Viscount Haldane, and Barons Parmoor, Arnold, Thomson, ("Labor Peers") began a determined filibuster against the bill...