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Without regard to party affiliations Their Lordships were as mad as a nest of decrepit hornets, all because the House of Commons had poked them up with a law drafted by the Labor Government to pay more "dole" money to out-of-work Britons. To the house of hereditary loafers such a crack-brained scheme seemed nearly if not quite Bolshevik...
Sure are the Lords that their wisdom is superior. Last week by a smashing vote they gave the dole bill a cuff and a kick, tacked on an amendment making it expire in one year?whereas the Labor Government is pledged to keep the dole high indefinitely...
...staking everything on Mr. Strawn. He is bigger now than the whole Sanitary District, the Mayor, the City Council, or the County Board. With $20,000,000 in his hands ready to dole out, with restrictions, to money-hungry governments, he has Chicago eating out of his hands...
...Egypt, ruthless, ironhanded Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Mr. MacDonald accepted and probably forced the resignation of Lord Lloyd. It was hoped that the Prime Minister's soothing proclamation soon afterward (TIME, Aug. 19) would reassure Egyptians and dispose them to wait until Britannia is ready to dole out their freedom, driblet by driblet. In asking for the whole bowl of porridge at once, last week, rash Prime Minister Nahas Pasha laid himself open to being considered at best an Oliver Twist. The original Oliver, as all remember, was locked up for a week in a "dark...
...wages fall below the dole," roared Clydeside Leader Jim Maxton, "we shall know how to raise wages...