Word: samuels
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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...
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...
...five new Harvard professorships designated are in fields not now occupied by men of the high Harvard calibre. Harvard has Felix ("Grand Manner") Frankfurter on utilities, Zechariah Chafee Jr. on equity, Joseph Warren on wills and property, Joseph Beale on conflicts, Samuel Williston on contracts...
...Engaged. Samuel Insull Jr., able young son of the famed Chicago president of numerous electrical and public utilities corporations; to Miss Adelaide Lyman Pierce of Chicago...
Died. Mrs. Arthur Capper, 59, wife of the famed Kansas Senator and onetime Governor of Kansas, daughter of Samuel J. Crawford (Governor of Kansas 1864-68); at Baltimore...