Word: birkenhead
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...quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo-American breweries compensation for losses sustained through Prohibition." Earl Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, was elected President of the League...
...complete schedule. Standing ambitiously in the midst of current politics, it was inevitable that it should be made the vehicle for much propaganda, beyond the power of Dr. Garfield to control. Despite the high prestige of some of its speakers, such as Lord Bryce, Tommaso Tittoni and Lord Birkenhead, it has not been immune from such unabashed propagandists as Count Harry Kessler (German). Further, the Institute has been very much under the influence of League of Nations proselytizers in this country. The report is discouraging that the British representatives this year are again to be Lionel Curtis and Philip Kerr...
...instructors?the late James Viscount Bryce; Tomass'o Tittoni, former Premier of Italy; Count Teleki, former Premier of Hungary; Frank W. Taussig, Harvardeconomist; A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard President; Michael I. Pupin, inventor; John H. Latane, Johns Hopkins Dean; the Earl of Birkenhead (F. E. Smith...
...Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, in a speech at the Constitutional Club in London, backed up the Government. Said he: " The Free Trade system had wholly failed to equip the Government with many instruments which were absolutely vital for the purpose of conducting the War. When the War broke out, under the shelter of tariffs, those who were menacing this Empire with destruction had equipped themselves with weapons available and adequate for our destruction, while we were left almost helpless for defensive purposes...
...Even within the last few weeks, Lord Birkenhead in a speech at Glasgow referred to the Pope as the greatest priest in the world...