Word: pugh
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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...
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...
...Arthur Pugh, for many years a steelworker, now chairman of the Trade Union Council, represented the focus of the entire general strike. His chief strike lieutenants, outside his personal Tsardom (steel), were: A. J. Cook (Coal); J. H. Thomas (Railways); Ben Tillet (Docks...
...Homeopathic Education," George Bernard Shaw; Roger Vaughan Pugh...
...retained in the finals of the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes was announced last night by Dean Briggs: T. F. Kelly '27, D. W. Keyes '25, E. M. Littell '26, E. J. Metzdort '26, W. D. Morton '27, H. M. U. Newburger '27, R. V. Pugh '25, H. R. Robinson '25, R. H. Schacht '26, and P. W. Williams...