Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Samuel. The logical person to whisper about conciliatorily among the stern-faced, set-lipped combatants was, of course, the man who chairmaned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19), the impartial investigator who presumably knew more than any other man in England about the friction in the coal industry which ultimately generated first the "coal strike" and the "general strike." Fortunately this man, Sir Herbert Samuel, is of such outstanding ability as to have become one of the four Jews who have held British Cabinet posts. Adroit but upright, he won fame as a conciliator while High Commissioner...
...Creation of a National (coal) Wage (revision) Board, representing miners and owners equally and having a neutral chairman with a casting vote; 3) Revision of wages to proceed on the explicit understanding that the Royal Coal Commission's recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the coal industry are to be given effect; 4) Legislative measures for reconstructing the coal industry to be prepared by a Government-named committee partly representative of the miners...
Last week another, Dr. Robert Eisler, working in his musty study in the Palais Royal at Paris, was collating an Old Russian (Slavonic) text of Josephus† with fragments that referred in Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Arabian to the times of Jesus. By collation he has worked out this visualization...
...trifled with. In 1917, at the age of 44, he doffed the stay-at-home security of a cabinet minister (Attorney General, 1913-15; Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 1915-16), and, hopping into a major's uniform, rushed off to serve with the British Royal Air Force in France until the War ended. His prestige is almost equally high among all parties and kinds of Britishers...
...period of prosperity in 1919 the conditions of the miners had been steadily growing worse over a period of five years. Finally in August of last year further wage reduction became necessary in order to keep the mines going. But the workers had reached rock bottom already, and a Royal Commission was appointed while the government agreed to subsidize the industry...