Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evening Standard, Beaverbrook journal, printed the story of MacDonald's lifelong friendship with Sir Alexander Grant, Chairman of the biscuit company. Grant's father and Mac-Donald's uncle had been fellow guards on the Highland Railway and the two boys had to a certain extent grown up together. The Standard also pointed out that Grant had only recently received a baronetcy. The implication was that the Premier had sold Grant a baronetcy...
...minds. In the end I agreed with this arrangement. A sum of money was to be invested in my name and the income I am to enjoy during my lifetime so long as I keep the car, and at my death it is to revert to Sir Alexander Grant or his heirs...
...lies open to a malicious mind. On the contrary, we would like to agree with the Prime Minister. They may have had no more to do with each other than 'the man in the moon' but we feel bound to say that Ramsay MacDonald and Sir Alexander Grant, with their Scottish upbringing should have remembered the sagacious apostolic injunction to avoid even the appearance of evil...
Parliamentarians were beaming and slapping one another's backs, because they had succeeded in having passed a bill to grant themselves salaries, when there appeared upon the threshold of the Senate a few irate Army officers who loudly protested that they and the working class had been neglected...
...days before, Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...