Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Secretary was definitely pro-French. The prestige of Sir John, when his great mind unburdens itself to Britain of a legal opinion, is unrivaled. This was shown in 1926 when a speech by Sir John Simon giving his opinion that the leaders of Britain's General Strike were liable to suit for heavy damages so scared them as to become a major factor in their prompt decision to call the Strike off. Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French. "In years gone...
...years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
This is commonly cited as the outstanding "Socialist" expression by Edward VIII and it was stretched at the time by some Laborites into an indication that "King Edward the Eighth will be England's first Socialist King!" Happily last week the nationwide coal strike which has been angrily brewing this winter as miners demanded a daily increase of two shillings was settled as the miners agreed to take one shilling-an auspicious economic opening for His Majesty's reign...
...larger and more ominous question of where the Royal Family is to stand in the event that a really Socialist Cabinet is ushered in, His Majesty gave a clue during the British Coal Strike which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927. At that time the Soviet Government, through the Third International, were pouring some $2,000,000 into British strikers' funds and Labor leaders in London were publicly exclaiming: "Thank God for Moscow!" With tension extreme, Edward of Wales created a national sensation by dispatching his personal check for $50 to the Somerset Miners Distress Fund with this...
...invisible glass. Invisible glass is not really invisible, but when properly set up in a show window it does produce the illusion of invisibility. If glass were a perfect transmitter of light, all glass would be invisible. But glass is not perfectly transparent. Some of the light rays which strike it are reflected back to the eye of the observer. Invisible glass is curved in such a way that the reflected light is sent upwards and downwards into black velvet pads which completely absorb it. Since no light gets back to the observer, the glass cannot be seen. The invisible...