Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was much speculation in Japanese . . . circles as to the reason for his [Adams'] absence. . . . A second conference is to be held, but the name of the Secretary of the Navy is not on the list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert...
...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hangs in fact by a thread, and may fall after the Christmas recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board" of big business and labor leaders...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
Finance Minister Hilferding did not survive this second upset. Over the weekend he resigned, took with him his right hand man, State Secretary Johannes Popitz. President Paul von Hindenburg scratched his grizzled poll, appointed Minister of Economics Paul Moldenhauer to be Temporary. Minister of Finance...
...Land for the Poor!" A second major event of the week was announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture that Morelos is the first Mexican state in which the ''agricultural aspirations" of the Grand Revolutionary Party may be considered as virtually realized. Some 68% of the state's land area of 1,300,000 acres has been expropriated from the former capitalist owners and distributed to 26,381 campesinos or "small farmers" in accordance with party slogan: "Land for the poor!" These recipients of the Government's bounty comprise 69% of the state's inhabitants. They...