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...TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes: "I don't need to know what the Government is going to propose. Anyone can guess. . . . The Government will attempt to make strikes unlawful, except in circumstances where they are doomed to failure." Sir John Simon, famed for his great pronouncement on the general strike (TIME, May 17) rejoined: "The trade union law is in a muddled state. It would be well to have it cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament's Week The Commons | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...consider yourselves smart magaziners, and I guess maybe you are; but I can see through this "Old Gentleman" game you are pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Telegram. Ask a Midwesterner who owns the New York Telegram. He will most likely guess Hearst, then give up. But he knows all about the Scripps-Howard newspapers. There are 25 of them scattered from Washington and Baltimore to San Diego and San Francisco. He will feel pretty certain that the Scripps-Howard chain has no link in Manhattan. Up to last week that was true. Then Chairman Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard organization announced that he had bought the New York Telegram, for a price not named, from the man who only lately acquired it (together with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epidemic | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...liked in Cambridge." In support of this his final words were, "Mayor Quinn came to see me the last time I was up here: so he must be out of town just now or I'm sure he would have come right in to see me this time. I guess that sort of gives me the freedom of your city, all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS IN THE DAY'S NEWS | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

...sure that the college boys of today are not what they used to be. They no longer have the courage to hang outside the stage door. I blame this--well, we might as well blame it on football. I guess that royal sport can stand one more knock. It's-well, that's my oue, Au revoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nothing Is Wet About S.S. "Triumphant" Says Sunny Jack Donahue-Philosophizes Amid Falling Scenic Smokestacks | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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