Word: bonar
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When they adopted lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser at the age of 18 months, wealthy Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bonar little thought that in Basle, Switzerland last week the Directors of the Bank for International Settlements would unanimously elect him President...
...heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike...
...weeks after ... I vacated the office of Prime Minister . . . Mr. Bonar Law, who succeeded me, sent Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Montagu Norman to the United States in January 1923 to open negotiations for the funding of the British debt...
...nationalism, Tim Healy generally kept out of jail, never joined the Sinn Fein, and thoroughly disapproved of the Easter Rebellion of 1916. It has been said that picking Tim Healy for first Governor General of the Free State in 1922 was the most brilliant political stroke that Prime Minister Bonar Law ever made. King George would never have approved anyone connected with Sinn Fein. Catholic Ireland would not have accepted anyone who was not a confirmed Home-Ruler...
...then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy, but, by God, they frighten...