Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...returned from Russia: journalists like Frazier Hunt, Robert Minor, and Isaac Don Levine, relief workers like Wilfred Humphries of the American Red Cross, military envoys like Captain Sadoul, and government emissaries and agents like William Bullitt and Raymond Robbins. All these men are opposed to intervention in Russia; Herbert Asquith is opposed to it; Mr. President, after your early utterances, how can you be in favor...
...said, was an ex-governor of Maine; another called him "greatest baseball twirler living," also "stellar performer on Jack Combe's team"; Fernald was named governor of this state, and the chief executive of Massachusetts was stated as Call. Several said that Grey was premier of England and that Asquith was prime minister, rather overcrowding the office, as it were...
...first the British government looked askance at the army recreation centres which we were establishing," said Mr. Carter, "but we persevered and one day Mr. Asquith paid a visit incognito to a 'hut' at Aldershot. He was so much impressed that immediately upon his return to London he had a check drawn for $125,000--the first government contribution to the work...
...University and the women's parts by Radcliffe students; follow: Pamela, Eleanor H. Jones 1917 Hugo von Muller R. T. Bushnell '19 Colonel "Billy" Parkman, W. H. Roope '16 Carol King, Constance Flood 1916 Major Lafayette-Rose, J. C. Scott 1G. Judith Lafayette-Rose, Christine Hayes 1908 Mrs. Jerome Asquith, Marion Graves 1918 Donald MacPherson, First Lieut., G. A. Collier '18 Edward Clarke, Second Lieut., H. B. Craig '19 Mrs. Burton, Hester W. Browne 1916 Ruth Burton, Elizabeth S. Allen 1917 Colonel David Hillis, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Malviney, Norma Smith 1916 An orderly, G. H. Code...