Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressive ceremony on Boston Common tomorrow morning, Governor Allen will present to the West Point Cadets twelve gold spear heads, adorned with the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on one side and that of the United States on the other, as a gift of the State Senate to the United States Military Academy. These spear heads are designed to be used on the company guidons, and are about eight inches long and beautifully designed with an attractice dull finish...
...British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in Charge of Unemployment, returned to England last week aboard the Canadian Pacific Duchess of Atholl from his four-week visit to Canada. His mission, to alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount...
Conference? In his public remarks last week Privy Seal Jim only hinted in broadest terms at the subject of his several private conferences with Prime Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian people how to carry on their business!" stoutly maintained Jim Thomas. "They know more about that than I do." But he added. "We in Great Britain would like a share in the orders now going to foreign countries. It is a mistake to assume that Governments know nothing of business...
Last week Mrs. Thomas fondly embraced her white-collared son, proudly watched while he extended to Privy Seal Jim an official welcome in the name of the Canadian National Railways...