Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...
...Winston Churchill, having stalked over to the House of Lords to get the lay of the Government's bill to partition
...sapping and undermining of His Majesty's Government's position was a delicate lobbying and committee-room affair. As it proceeded behind the scenes, the Prime Minister squirmed and conferred in whispers with his colleagues on the Government front bench and House of Commons oratory on the bill scarcely mattered, although some of it was pungent...
...Irishman aged only 28, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, had charge of His Majesty's Government's bill in the House of Lords as Undersecretary for Colonies, was on trial last week as a coming Conservative statesman of possibly bright future...
Palestine, slipped back into the House of Commons last week to shotgun it as effectively as he had the Government bill on British armament profiteering, which had to be entirely scrapped and redrafted (TIME, June 28 et ante). In his hunting Mr. Churchill was aided last week by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former Colonial Secretary Lieut. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. Deftly they put His Majesty's Government on the spot by crying that it was "un-British" to present a bill the effect of which would be for the House of Commons...