Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last week Lord Cecil demanded, in the name of the new British Labor Government, that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor...
...State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. He became also a director of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., Lord Melchett's British counterpart of I. G. Farbenindustrie...
...pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much of their time at the airports that they soon leave their studies far in arrears. It is a far more challenging thing to a boy of this temperament to obtain his pilot's license than to labor all year for three dull C's and a D in his college courses. That being the case, would he not, more logically, be a student at an aviation school that at Harvard or Yale? In the end, he might decide that a college diploma is even more desirable than the pilot...
...various times he has had broadest experience with men and masses. As Minister of Corporations he will supervise not great in- dustrial enterprises but the Fascist syndicates or "Corporations" which are really employes' unions and employers' associations. Today with strikes ruled out by Fascist bayonets all Italian labor disputes are settled through the Ministry of Corporations, and Ex-Editor Mussolini has paid the highest compliment to Ex-Editor Bottai by giving...
...Oscar F. Willing lives in Portland, Ore., and was runner-up in the National Amateur golf championship at Pebble Beach (TIME, Sept. 16). Dr. Henrik Shipstead lives in Minnesota and in addition to being a duck-hunting dentist he is a U. S. Senator, a one-man Party (Farmer-Labor), a sick man (TIME, Sept. 16). The third. Dr. George T. Gregg of Pittsburgh, is the best U. S. golfer over the age of 55. This he proved last week by scoring 156 for two rounds at Apawamis (Rye, N. Y.), in the tournament of the U. S. Senior Golf...