Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revealed for the first time what had been discovered by Scotland Yard when its operatives raided Arcos House (TIME, May 23, 30), in which were the premises of the Soviet Trade Delegation which came to London under the Trade Agreement of 1921, during the Lloyd George Ministry. For perhaps an hour the Premier built up his thesis that the Russian Trade Delegation and also the Soviet Embassy have functioned as directing agencies for Communist propaganda, subversion and espionage. The evidence supporting this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between...
Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
...drastic measure designed to throttle and paralyze the trade unions should they ever attempt a repetition of the General Strike (TIME...
...newsgatherers Mr. MacDonald said: "If I am able, I shall go straight from the dock at Southampton to the House of Commons. I shall not even go first to my home. The Trade Unions Bill [see above] must be fought to a finish...
Perhaps one of the most pleasing aspects of this work is the relations formed with Harvard graduates. We want information, prices, forecasts. Is coal going up or down? How about oil? Where can we buy this or that? Where are the trade customs and agreements? We must have advice on legal or other points. We have only to ask a graduate, tell him that the information is for Harvard, and every door is opened for us, every book is at our disposal, and even the busiest official seems glad to interrupt his work and give us all the time...