Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wholesale adoption of Lloyd George's scheme for a program of public works: (Labor leaders still insist that this scheme was originally theirs, stolen by the Liberal Party.) A new arterial road from London to Aberdeen; a railway ring around London to avoid transporting goods through the city; development of harbors and waterways; extensive draining of marsh lands...
Political observers last week analyzed the origins of Britain's second Labor (Socialist) Cabinet, They discovered...
Snowden, Philip, wizened, pixielike Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labor's bitter-tongued financial expert (TIME, April 29) who shares with legless Major Jack Benn Brunei Cohen the title of Cripple of the House of Commons...
Henderson, Arthur, grey-mustached, placid Foreign Secretary. "Uncle Arthur" Henderson is one of the oldest Labor M. P.'s in the House; he took his seat in 1903. Self-educated, starting life as a Scotch iron moulder, he succeeds the blundering, monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain as director of Britain's foreign policy...
Bondfield, Margaret ("Saint Maggie"), Minister of Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a week could she take a bath, running three-quarters of a mile to a public bath, where she had to bathe and dress in 15 minutes...