Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack* and their lordships debated the bill. From amid the encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their...
McAdoo's following began to leave him, went to other candidates?Glass, Ralston, John W. Davis. Smith stood practically still. Glass had 72½ votes in the 84th and again on the 86th. Ralston (who had 4 on the 81st) rose to 93 on the 87th. Davis stood at 86½ on the same ballot. At 11:45 on Monday night the Convention adjourned until 10:30 o'clock the next morning in sympathy with President and Mrs. Coolidge on the death of their...
...convention dinner will be held in the Yorkville Casino, 210 East 86th street, at 6.30 o'clock on Wednesday evening. "Is Capitalism Collapsing?" is to be the subject for discussion after the dinner, and among the speakers will be Morris Hillquit, Scott Nearing, Lincoln Steffens, and a defender of capitalism...