Word: battersea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea. The officer found more than 100 coathangers in the park...
Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...
...members of the British delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, meeting at Washington on Oct. 1 (see CABINET), recently resigned because Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P. from Battersea, was a member of the same delegation. That they had acted too quickly became evident last week: Secretary of State Kellogg debarred Saklatvala from...
Others felt the American action discourteous or unwise. The most unexpected outcome of Secretary Kellogg's action, however, was the circulation of a petition in Battersea,, Mr. Saklatvala's constituency, which according to report, attracted crowds of signers. It demanded that Saklatvala apologize for his utterances, especially what he said about British policy in India, or resign...
...National Minority Movement planned a conference at Battersea this week to endorse their program: "A pound a week more wages and an hour a day less work...