Word: asquith
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...protest that has ensued is unwarranted. Lecturing has come to be an honorable profession, and at present it vies with baseball and the movies as a source of fame and fortune. A glance at the year's harvest of lecture-tour celebrities will carry conviction: Margot Asquith, Philip Gibbs, Conan Doyle, Hugh Walpole, and now Emile Coue:--in fact, any Englishman or foreigner with more than seven lines to his credit in the current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have...
Well has it been said that "all Europe looks to America". This country has indeed proved a "happy hunting-ground" for post-War lecturers and visitors of every description. We have had visits from Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, distinct "personalities", not to mention Foch, Joffre, Diaz, and various other "mere men". But this desire to see the "land of the free" has heretofore been confined to those of Allied sympathies; we have never had the opportunity to hear Von Tirpitz on "The German Navy as 1 Thought It Was", or (De) Ludendorf's famous "The Eternal Triangle and the Triple...
...showing signs of weakening. Nominally representing a Unionist government, the Premier has alienated many of his conservative supporters by his advocacy of liberal measures, while the Liberal Party, with whom his sympathies naturally lie, refuse to accept the prodigal as their leader because of his treatment of Asquith...
...telling of the results of his investigation of mining conditions, Mr. Clay outlined the relations of the mining industry with the government in the past under the Asquith ministry, and those of the present under Lloyd George. He showed that the threat of the Triple Alliance was only natural because if the miners were defeated in their demands, the Alliance would be the next affected. The only danger Mr. Clay sees would be the organization of England on a class conscious basis. There may be, and are, other disputes browning but they are all of the same type--the change...
...October 20 by a vote of 346 to 79 the House of Commons rejected the motion of Arthur Henderson, Laborite, for an investigation into the Government's policy in Ireland. The result is an overwhelming vote of confidence in Lloyd George's policy and a severe defeat for the Asquith-Henderson forces...