Word: beit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett...
Whereas, [Governor Long's] statement is not only untrue but carries the vice of a lie and the venom of a liar. . . . Therefore, beit resolved, by the Senate of Texas, the House concurring, that the . . . statement of Huey P. Long, Governor of the State of Louisiana, is a lie made out of the whole cloth, and its author is a consumate [sic] liar...