Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
Good old Mac eventually appeared, smiling, hair tousled. Later it was announced that Finance Expert Snowden was to be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Union Worker Thomas was to receive the medieval title of Lord Privy Seal, to be charged with the most important of Labor's problems: solving unemployment...
Friday. The retiring Tory Cabinet drove to Windsor, handed over their seals of office to the King-Emperor. At the same time Prime Minister MacDonald published an official list of members of the new Labor Cabinet...
Writing of choosing the new Cabinet in Forward, British Labor weekly, Ramsay MacDonald said: "Then will come the unhappy days when for the merit I should like to reward I can find no places vacant, for all those I can fit in I cannot always find the appropriate place. May I be judged sympathetically...
...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...