Word: byes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest political anomaly was seen as the opening of a bye-election in the Warwick and Leamington division. There were three candidates: Labor, the Countess of Warwick; Liberal, George Nicholls, farm worker; Conservative, Captain Anthony Eden, soon to become related by marriage to the Countess of Warwick. The vacancy occurred by the elevation to a judgeship of Sir Ernest Pollock...
...wealthy banker. This artless theme will undoubtedly stir the heart strings and purse strings of thousands. To the faintly intelligent it will be incredibly banal. One almost expects Mr. Hodge to rush from the stage after the final curtain, shake each individual visitor by the hand and kiss good-bye the little girls in pigtails...
...political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back on a bye-election in Paisley. The principal Cabinet posts he has held: Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Gladstone and Roseberry, 1892-5; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-08; Prime Minister (and First Lord of the Treasury), 1908-1916; and in 1914 for a brief period he held...
...political career started in 1883 when he was elected to Parliament on a bye-election for Newcastle-on-Tyne. He held several Cabinet posts: Chief Secretary of Ireland twice, 1886, 1892-5; Secretary of State for India, 1905-10; Lord President of the Privy Council, 1910-14. He resigned the last named post at the outbreak of the War, because, although a Liberal, he was in reality a reactionary at heart. In his Recollections he said: "The War and our action in it led to my retirement from public office. The world is traveling under formidable omens into...
...Gold), all is frolic, action and fun. True sons of their parents, these-not a complex or a suppressed desire in a barrel of them. "And here, while the Rover boys and their chums are getting ready to give the girls a glorious good time, we will say good-bye...