Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing criminals on income tax evasion charges. In Albany, N. Y., papers of incorporation were filed for, the Anti-Gang League of America. Purpose: to urge the nation...
...Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that he altered the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed . . ." No such blunderbuss phrase appeared last week: His Majesty was most graciously pleased...
Since India is no Dominion, the person of her Viceroy, most important British administrative post, is not for her to choose but for the British Prime Minister to suggest. Labor politicians demanded that James Ramsay MacDonald pick a Labor peer for the post. He suggested Laborite Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell, president (1920-22) of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Under-Secretary of State for Air (1921-22), author of Love Triumphant, and Other Poems. This met with such violent Conservative, Liberal, and even Indian opposition on the basis of Lord Gorell's "inexperience," that...
...Rykov's removal has been rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding him in both posts is Vyacheslav Molotov (real name Scriabine), a squarejawed, pince-nezzed gentleman who looks not unlike the late great Theodore Roosevelt, is chiefly notable as an able newspaperman. In 1911, just...
...Stalina and the maddest coal mines imaginable. . . . Working conditions so arduous that the labor turnover exceeds 100% per year. . . . Miners on all fours, crawling down (sometimes sideways like crabs) to reach their work a mile and a half underground. . . . Red taskmasters sure that to cut passages high enough for the miners to stand erect would cost too much...