Word: asquith
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...advisory capacity, without, however, crossing the initiative of the Government. In other words, the King's direct powers are small; but the sum of his indirect power, exercised in a large number of ways, is so tremendous that it is impossible to estimate it. So great leaders as Gladstone, Asquith, Lloyd George, and so eminent a contemporary constitutional authority as Marriott have all made and upheld this point...
Premier Baldwin is now credited with having made a coup de maitre in recommending the elevation of ex-Premier H. H. Asquith to the peerage (TIME, Feb. 2) ; for it was the latter who, in 1911, succeeded in reducing "the noble lords" to their present innocuous position...
...House of Lords Reform is now a slogan of the Conservative Party and undoubtedly this important subject will find a place on the order paper during Mr. Baldwin's administration. With Lord Oxford and Asquith now in the upper House, it is to be presumed that he will exercise his tremendous influence, as leader of the Liberal Party, in deciding how the House of Lords is to be reformed; and by inference his efforts will be directed to giving it the real power of which he formerly divested...
After the fall of the Balfour Cabinet- in 1905, which closed a decade of Conservative dominance, the ministry of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman was elected, and Mr. Asquith became his chief's first lieutenant in the capacity of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Within two years, however, Campbell-Bannerman was dead and Mr. Asquith at last became Prime Minister...
...great Tory leader of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury (position nearly equivalent to the then unknown premiership). In 1853 it again fell into abeyance to be revived now in favor of H. H. Asquith, who doubtless chose it owing to his close connections with the great university...