Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past week's political action in Great Britain was largely taken up by an Asquith-MacDonald dispute, which was of a constitutional and hypothetical nature...
Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such...
Unfortunately interfering with this phlegmatic calm appears the challenge of J. Ramsey Macdonald, hailed as the coming Labor Premier. To The World he writes, essentially in reply to Herbert Asquith's speech of a fortnight ago, that the King, whose privilege of refusing a general election was counted on by the followers of Asquith to terminate Labor's rule at the desired moment, must act according to the advice of the Minister. Hence after a short period of Labor rule, instead of the government falling without a general election into the hands of Herbert Asquith as one of the available...
Liberal and Conservative Parties ran amuck last week on the question of tariff preferences. The Liberals would have none of it, the Conservatives, who had just won a by-election in West Derbyshire, were all for it. Messrs. Asquith and Lloyd George decided that the Liberal Party had better remain free. Later Premier Baldwin ordered a committee which was preparing a protection plan to discontinue its work...
...Margot Asquith. At a meeting in Glasgow which Mr. Asquith's brother, H. J. Tennant, was addressing, interruptions became so frequent that the meeting developed into a general uproar. At that point Mrs. Asquith, who was among the audience, ascended the platform and announced: "This gentleman is my brother. You have a perfect right to come here, but no right to do what you are doing now. Those who don't want to listen...