Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since all major business of the Conference will be transacted in innumerable sub-committee rooms, the huge public session of last week wore on amid intentionally bromidic set speeches. Even so, U. S. Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson managed to fall afoul of bland Sir Max Muspratt, President of the British Delegation, and, in business life, president of the immensely potent and monopolistic Federation of British Industries. Naturally, rubber was the elastic bone of the Robinson-Muspratt contention, for the British rubber monopoly (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) has forced U. S. citizens to pay dear for tires, hot-water bottles...
...Sir Max began the exchange of shots by observing in his set speech that "with very rare exceptions there is no British discrimination against the rest of the world in the export of raw materials, and the much criticized rubber restrictions have no element of discrimination in favor of Great Britain, but were introduced to ensure continuity of supply of a product essential to modern civilization...
That the shot took effect was seen when British Delegate Sir Walter Runciman, genial shipping magnate, remarked candidly: "It looks like friend Muspratt got it right on the bean...
...Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, whose name bonesetters use as incantation against the curses of "regular" doctors, reached Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Commission should its policy of excluding women as commercial pilots be continued. Mme. Boland claimed that dozens of French women, "in these hard times," are anxious to brace their family budgets with the stiff pay of air pilots. Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ? Soon Sir Philip Sassoon, British Under-Secretary of State for Air, and Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft in all countries which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed to regard women as ministering angels, even though...