Word: memorandum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the inception of the general strike, Sir Herbert had made it his business to know what secret thoughts of conciliation were in the minds of Premier Baldwin and Arthur Pugh, chairman of the Trade Union Council. Then "a memorandum by Sir Herbert Samuel" was made public. It purported to represent merely his own personal idea of a workable compromise. Even to blockheads it was evident that this document was a shrewd synthesis of the views held by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Pugh...
...Memorandum recommended: 1) Temporary renewal of the coal subsidy (TIME...
Capitulation. Both sides having pondered well this "memorandum," certain further assurances were conveyed in deadly secret. Soon Mr. Pugh led the Trade Union Council to No. 10 Downing St., the Premier's official residence. Within were the Premier and six* of his Ministers, fire-eaters "Winnie" Churchill and "Jix" Joynson-Hicks being conspicuously absent...
...rising, and both workers and employers were exasperated by the attempts of their adversaries to put an interpretation on the "notices" which would win public sympathy to themselves. For the moment, however, Premier Baldwin was still so hopeful of a peaceable settlement that he personally wrote out a memorandum of suggested peace terms, and left it with the Labor leaders while he conferred in a nearby room with his Cabinet...
Galena, 111., is subject to floods and very wet weather. So Secretary Mellon thought the Treasury was justified in furnishing rubber boots, coats and hats to Postoffice and Custom House employes stationed there. Then Secretary Mellon wrote a memorandum to Comptroller General McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury, saying that the Galena officials received small salaries and he deemed it only fair to classify rubber boots, etc., as "necessary equipment," not as "wearing apparel" (which must be paid for by the men themselves...