Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plantagenet itself is not so great a name in Britain now as Isaacs. When Rufus Daniel Isaacs retired, upon receiving his present rank of Marquess of Reading (TIME, May 3, 1926), he had been Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general...
Because Australian Laborites definitely routed Australian Nationalists at the last election (TIME, Oct. 21), Mr. Scullin now feels strongly enough, as "his majesty's prime minister in Australia," to advise George V to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs the new governor general. If given, His Majesty must take the advice. It was a question last week only of whether Sir Isaac Isaacs would consent to accept appointment. With deliberation becoming to a Chief Justice he pondered all week, kept Mr. Scullin, Dominion, King and Empire waiting...
...Australia gets a "native" governor general, Canada is almost sure to want one, and if things go on thus what is the Empire coming to?-such was a part of the to-be-or-not-to-be? pondered by Sir Isaac Isaacs...
Funk & Wagnalls also reminded people that the firm was long known as a "Prohibition house," that the late Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk founded "Prohibition Park" as an amusement centre on Staten Island. His son Wilfred John Funk, now inactive president of the company, is also a personal...
Certain was the Bill to go to conference within the week. The House conferees would be: Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway, New Jersey's Isaac Bacharach (all regular Republicans) and John Nance Garner of Texas, Mississippi's James William Collier (Democrats). The Senate conferees: Utah's Smoot, Indiana's Watson, California's Shortridge (regular Republicans) and North Carolina's Simmons. Mississippi's Harrison (Democrats). The conference voting will normally be 6-to-4 for high rates. The conferees will become the final tariff writers. In dispute between...