Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention of the National Municipal League, which has just concluded a two-day session at the Harvard Union, draws attention to America's most vital problem in government. As Lord Bryce pointed out, municipal government is the weakest link in the American system. To promote efficient and democratic local control is the purpose of the League...
...functioning is unique in the annals of government. Entirely an extra-constitutional organization, served by voluntary membership, the National Municipal League supplements the work of government and combats the conditions which Lord Bryce censured...
...feet tall, hearty, only 48 years old. He is a master of silence like his predecessor, Murphy. Unlike Murphy, he is also a persuasive speaker. This is not entirely an advantage. James Bryce in his standard work** declares : "It is, of course, a gain to a Ring to have among them a man of popular gifts, because he helps to conceal the odious features of their rule, gilding it by his rhetoric, and winning the applause of the masses who stand outside the circle of workers. However, the position of the rhetorical boss is less firmly rooted than that...
Died. Sir Mortimer Durand, 74, onetime (1903-06) British Ambassador to Washington; at Minehead, Somerset. He was succeeded by the late Lord Bryce...
...wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from no other, his actions were entirely justified. Even so great a critic as Lord Bryce endorsed his policy...