Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the House of Commons cried "Hear, Hear!" approvingly last week as Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Herbert Steel-Maitland declared: "I believe it is a fact that there are more workers unemployed in the U. S. than in Great Britain. . . . Although no official statistics on the subject of unemployment in the U. S. are issued by the U. S. Government, it appears to be generally accepted by those competent to form an opinion that out of 12,000,000 workers engaged in manufacturing and industry in the U. S. 1,500,000 are unemployed. . . . Our own unemployment figure...
...study at Harvard, eight at Yale, eight at Columbia, and smaller numbers at other institutions. This year, four of twenty Common-wealth Fellows have chosen Harvard. The awards are made by a British Committee of Award, of which H. R. H. the Prince of Wales is honorary chairman and Sir Walter Buchanan-Riddell, Principal of Hetford College, Oxford, Chairman. So many applicants appeared for the first set of appointments that the committee at once established the equivalent of first-class honors as a minimum standard. These fellowships therefore assure the presence in this country of a highly selected group...
...Dear Sir...
...Dear Sir...
...reply of the Government, through various ministers, was simply that they had, in the words of Sir Austen Chamberlain, "practiced forbearance until forbearance is outworn...