Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exposition was made by Sir Samuel Hoare, 55, the day after his resignation as British Foreign Secretary and three days before he was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, 38, the youngest British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville in 1851. Its continuing vital importance was well indicated by New-York Timesman Charles A. Selden who cabled from London thus: "Anybody who went to the Commons expecting to hear reproaches and recriminations between Sir Samuel Hoare on the one hand and Mr. Baldwin and other members of the Cabinet on the other was disappointed. There was not a trace of bitterness...
...Earl Winterton: "Partly as a result of the denuding of the Far Eastern seas of our ships to mobilize them in the Mediterranean at great cost, Japan is making her great forward move in North China...
...chairman of the meeting the Earl of Derby, close friend of King George, made what many considered a tactful allusion to world-wide indignation aroused by the impression that His Majesty's Government and perhaps His Majesty, as well, favor making peace by dismembering Ethiopia. Rumbled Derby: "The more people who come to this country to see us as we are and not as we are painted, the better it will be for the peace of the world and the easier for our diplomats and politicians to keep peace...
Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers- i.e. a commoner by a jury of twelve commoners, a lord by the House of Lords. In 1901 occurred the last trial of a peer by his peers, that of Earl Russell who was convicted of bigamy and received the light sentence on which a peer can traditionally count, three months in jail...
...almost agree with the Paramount's advance statement, which claims that Earl Derr Bigger's oriental sleuth as portrayed in the movies is rapidly taking his place by the lean side of Sherlock Holmes. Charlie Chan, spouting the cherished wisdom of the East, is rapidly becoming one of the screen's few lasting fabrications...