Word: bonar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never noted for his powers of debate in Commons. But he was an adroit political tactician. He won his peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later. His last words for his little friend "Max" were: "You're a curious fellow...
...years "Tommy" Horder has been doctoring the British Royal Family. Among his other patients: Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, Actress Elisabeth Bergner, Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. Lord Horder's usual consultation fee is $25. He charged $5,000 to testify to the sanity of Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, eccentric millionairess who repeatedly has tried to help finance British air defense. His offices are in Harley Street...
Once in, Stanley Baldwin made Parliament his gentleman's club, developed a knack for maneuvering among the other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...when Britons thirsted to hang the Kaiser, obliging Mr. David Lloyd George won a general election and three more years as Prime Minister by promising to do so.* Ever since 1922, when the fuzzy-haired Welsh Liberal was finally ousted by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, he has been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor...
...months, lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser was adopted by a wealthy couple named Bonar. At 20 he flunked out of Columbia University, returned the next year to win every money prize offered for scholarship. A lawyer by training, he had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, at 43, he was elected president of the Bank for International Settlements. B. I. S., known as the "Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop...