Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debate on the speech continued all week. It was flayed as "most meagre" by James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Opposition and onetime Prime Minister, who declared that Parliament was "in for a long holiday," since the Government had declined to deal with the critical problems of the coal and other vital industries...
Ensued, last week, furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted. Significant loomed a recent statement by the great Indian barrister Pundit Molital Nehru, executive leader of the Swaraj (NonCooperation Party). Wrote he: "I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind me. In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge the chains...
...authentic co-leader with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...
Died. John S. Kelly, 69, Democratic leader for many years of Baltimore; in Baltimore; of pneumonia...
...editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master...