Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The platform of the Liberal Party is, in short, to promise Englishmen whatever they want, and to blame the Conservatives for unemployment, failure to meet the Coolidge naval limitations proposals, and inability to wriggle out of paying what the Empire owes the U. S. Throughout his speech Mr. Lloyd George...
"Vauncey." So-called "modern names" for British young women, noted this year in large numbers for the first time on election registry lists, are:
An eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the...
As the measure neared a vote, last week, General Smuts flayed General Hertzog for dragging the great and vital "race question" into party politics. Every South African election is bound to be just another dogfight between Generals Hertzog and Smuts; but there is indeed something awful and "above party" about...
Solemnly at last the Parliament of the Union of South Africa voted on General Hertzog's bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant...