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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...
...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...
...only is Scapini a national figure because of his war record, but he is one of the most brilliant lawyers in France and a prominent member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He is visiting the United States at the special invitation of Ambassador Herrick and the American Legion...
Halsey is a former member of the Erskine Bureau and is carrying on his present work as a representative of Dr. Miller McClintock director of the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research. He was one of the original committee appointed by Dr. McClintock for the Boston survey...
...secretary of the National Civic Federation of 1902, Commons became professor of Economics at Wisconsin in 1904. In his term of service at this university Professor Commons has trained a large number of men now prominent in the field of labor relations. From 1913 to 1915 he was a member of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations...