Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England's aristocratically somnolent House of Lords last week swallowed up another British Socialist,* Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb, hale septuagenarian, world-famed political economist (Fabianism). Statesmen, educators, students who for almost 40 years have known the plain name of Sidney Webb as a synonym for scholarly and philosophically radical Socialism, will not soon be accustomed to his new Socialist title, "Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming...
...record of a peer-author's wife refusing to become a Lady. U. S. observers compared Mrs. Webb's renunciation to the self-effacement of Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith of the U. S. Friends said that one of her motives was to keep visible the famed name of Webb. Friends also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished his plan to retire after...
...Kellogg Treaty concludes with the seemingly harmless statement that it is signed by the rulers of the various nations "in the name of their respective peoples." Though Japan is a constitutional monarchy, yearly growing more democratic, nowhere are royal prerogatives more jealously guarded. According to the Japanese Constitution the Emperor, Son of Heaven, does not sign treaties "in the name of his people" for that would mean that it was the people who were making the treaty, the Emperor who was their agent. Japanese Prime Ministers sign "in the name of" the people. Japan's Emperor signs "for the good...
...Doubleday, Page & Co. about to publish a new magazine. Partner Walter Hines Page was to be editor. The magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...