Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon Britons will ballot in their General Parliamentary Election the ultimate question of which is: "Who will head 'the next administration as Prime Minister?" Though ballots will not be cast for two or three months yet-depending on the date when His Majesty declares the present Parliament dissolved-there...
Obviously such promises are electioneering tosh, but in 1918 Prime Minister Lloyd George won an election by promising to "hang the Kaiser," and today he knows that what the 1,400,000 British unemployed want to have promised them is jobs...
As he faced the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed mad clear through. His wrath was due to an attempt by members of his own party (Conservative) to block a measure which, if passed, would effect important savings to the Treasury?savings perhaps sufficient to enable Mr...
Oil Committee. Election of R. C. Holmes, President of Texas Corp., to head a committee of 80 oil-executives was last week announced by the American Petroleum Institute. The Holmes committee is charged with the difficult and vital function of determining some method of restricting oil production. The main committee...
The meeting will open with the election of officers for the ensuing year.