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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employers' associations bind themselves by signed agreement to accept the ruling of his Arbitral Board of Five. Two arbiters were chosen from each side. Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike's Off! | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...ministers to guide them, the "Wee Frees" dwell glumly in the mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Ones of Earth | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Members of the Labor Party show a terrible disregard of the Sabbath," boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Ones of Earth | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Obediently, Elizabeth sped to Bled. In the presence of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Andreja | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Since then a new British Government has come in, the Labor Cabinet headed by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "If Chatterjee and Das are guilty of sedition for publishing my book," cried Poughkeepsie's Sunderland last week, "then Ramsay MacDonald and other [Labor] members of the British Parliament are also guilty, for the most extremist and seditious passages in my book are quotations from these great and honored Englishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Devil People? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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