Word: adamson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alastair M. Adamson, St. Andrews, zoology at the University of Southern California; Frank N. Astbury, Liverpool University, architecture at Columbia; Ian William M. A. Black, St. Andrews, chemistry at Yale; Margaret E. Cranswick, King's College, London, education at Columbia; Robert Fisher, Herford College, Oxford, economics at Yale; Isabella Gordon, Aberdeen and Imperial College of Science, London, Zoology at Stanford; Hilda A. C. Green, Westfield College, London, literature at Pennsylvania; Donald B. Harden, Trinity College, Cambridge and Aberdeen; archaeology at Michigan; Richard L. Lechmere-Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California...
...established compulsory life insurance for all engineers. When he went into office, the Brotherhood had 38,000 members with $69,000,000 worth of insurance. Today, it has 90,000 members with $200,000,000 worth of insurance. In 1916, he helped to secure the passage of the Adamson Law for railway labor...
...Liberals and such noted Laborites as ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, Sidney Webb, William Adamson, J. H. Thomas, voted with the Government...
...Solicitor General, he had successfully defended the Adamson 8-Hour-Day-Law for the railways, thus preventing a strike...
...Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted several anti-trust cases...