Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans. Privy Seal Thomas, newly installed, was ready with the following suggestions last week...
...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...
...this will cost money," said Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, "but it is better to spend money productively than to give money to people for doing nothing...
Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative, fussbudget Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks...
Thomas, James Henry ("Jim") (see col. I). Lord Privy Seal and delegated to investigate unemployment...