Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schemer. In Philadelphia a policeman's berth is rapidly becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following...
...stands at 1,242,000, an increase in the last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government...
...expected "trouble" from the Australian unions. Lord Kylsant expects, it was learned, to augment the Australian Commonwealth Line with a few of the smaller, older White Star ships in case the Australian labor leaders are very, very good. Should "trouble" actually arise, His Lordship has but to transfer his seven bought-at-a-bargain ships to service with one of the chief companies which he directs, namely the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., the White Star Line, the Union Castle Line, the Oceania Steam Navigation Co. and Harland & Wolff...
...case was thus rested almost entirely upon the testimony of Captain John K. Robison, U. S. N. retired. Robison stated that he, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because in 1921, the Navy...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...