Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, for well over a century. ... As for the honor lists* during my Premiership, they were prepared by the chief whips in the usual way. They were then submitted to the joint leaders of the coalition, myself and Bonar Law, and afterward Sir Austin Chamberlain,? who succeeded him. We sat together in joint meeting to consider and settle those lists. The claims were urged on purely public grounds. . . . During the existence of the National Liberal Party, until after the general election of 1923 the fund was administered by the whips of the party without...
...called President of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who took the salute from the top of the Lenin tomb in Red Square. Behind the troops came 250,000 picked workers, preceded by a monster, two-headed green dragon. One of the heads represented, monocle & all, Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary; the other, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy, with the Fascist swastika above his forehead...
CHEV. GIACINTO LECCISI Papal Chamberlain Attorney and Counselor at Canon Law From ROME has opened an office at the above address for the purpose of dealing with the an nulment of marriages in the Roman Catholic Church, and all matters pertaining to canon...
...this. The Roman Church used to be thought of as a force in the protection of Christian marriage and the Christian home; this is a direct assault upon both. It would be bad enough if it were but the ill-considered commercial venture of an individual; but a papal chamberlain is esteemed a member of the Pope's household itself. . . . [That office] is one of intimate association with the person of the Pontiff. One cannot conceive of a papal chamberlain embarking upon such a career without the knowledge and approval of his superior. Clearly he must be sent, unless...
...with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy made him Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy...