Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sends England's Prime Minister into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind...
...territory (Cape of Good Hope), but he was an out-&-out Boer. A solemnly earnest, religious youth, he worked to such good purpose at college in Stellenbosch that he won a scholarship to Cambridge. Back in Capetown after graduation he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow-until the scandal of Jameson's Raid and the worse scandal of Rhodes's implication...
Because 12-year-old Cinemactor FrecU die Bartholomew earns some $1,250 a week in Hollywood, the Canadian Government announced it would withdraw his $180 annual pension, given him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew, who lost...
England thus finds itself in a dilemma which is clearly expressed by the two schools of thought that have been seeking to gain Mr. Baldwin's ear. One group headed by Viscount Cecil insists upon a stronger League as the only means of peace, while others under Lord Lothian see safety in a League that doesn't force anybody...
...week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without a break," she wrote, "the enemy has been bombing the armies and people...