Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
Speaking for the Liberal Opposition, onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George blamed the Government for omitting to mention the "disastrous failure" of the Foreign Office in permitting a breakdown of the Anglo-U. S. negotiations at the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...
...defend ourselves in both capacities." Little Brother Arnaldo wrote editorially in Il Popolo d' Italia (unquestionably with Il Duce's authority) : ". . . A solution of the differences between the Roman Church and the Italian State will be impossible for another half century." Thus was significantly trumpeted the disastrous breakdown of recent Italo- Vatican negotiations which had seemed at one time to be drawing very near an amicable agreement. Pope Pius XI and Il Duce were reported to have been in substantial concurrence on the proposition that the claims of the Holy See to temporal authority could be harmlessly satisfied...
After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer [Winston Spencer Churchill], since the breakdown of the Conference, has stated specifically: 'Therefore we are unable now-and I hope at all future times-to international embody in a solemn international agreement any words which would bind us to the principle of mathematical parity in naval strength...