Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his political career as Liberal M. P. for Reading; and under Premier Asquith (now Lord Oxford), became first Solicitor General with a knighthood, then Attorney General with a seat in the Cabinet-the first Attorney General to be so honored...
...Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who, as Premier H. H. Asquith, passed the Parliament Act depriving the House of Lords of its power, agreed that reform was necessary, but cautioned the House against "protecting the people against their own representatives...
...went to Eton where Esher, Minto, Balfour, the Beresfords, Midleton, Rosebery?all men who have left their mark on the pages of Britain's recent history?were closing the chapters of their Eton life. From Eton he went to Oxford's scholar college, Balliol, where like Lord Oxford and Asquith, he carved a brilliant academic career...
...Countess of Oxford and Asquitii (Margot Asquith) suffered from shock?an automobile in which she was riding crashed...
...Rackel, Miss Anna Pierce; D. W. Wallwork, Miss Louise Bonney; N. M. Bigelow, Miss Anna Horton; T. E. Tuck, Miss Emily Wentworth; D. Salazar, Miss Marie Lanfranchi; E. J. Metxdorf, Miss Martha Dunder; F. Hardy, Miss Anna Calvert; R. P. Gunkel, Miss Haxel Martin; Laurence Dinesdale, Miss Bernice Asquith; J. P. Murphy, Miss Bertha Fisher; E. S. Gurtis, Miss Ruth Schumacher...