Word: hackney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting a brewery in Hackney (London outskirts), King George VI was presented with a bottle of beer that had been brewed by his brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1932. Flustered, the King handed the bottle to an equerry, hedged: "I can't very well carry the bottle around...
...learned Justices chuckled. They questioned Mr. Hardie with interest about the facts of the case. Then Lawyer Henry Hackney argued for Farmer Moor that the Bankhead Act was unconstitutional: it was not a tax to raise revenue but to prevent the raising of cotton; it was an illegal attempt by the Federal Government to regulate farmers who are not engaged in interstate commerce. With equal interest the Justices made inquiries about the terms of the law. Next came the railroad's turn. Its lawyer made no attempt to defend the Bankhead Act, simply contending that unless the Court should...
...characterized by grandiose imaginative conceptions. Thus The Red Flag dealt with the progress of revolution through the ages while his interminable A Saga of the Sword described in terms of romance the development of war from prehistoric times. Born in London, he attended the Grocers' Company School and Hackney Downs, enlisted in the British Army in 1914, was demobilized in 1919 with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about the first attack of the tanks as seen by a German artillery commander. It sounded so authentic that...
...League of Nations is being secretly used for the interests of Imperialism," cried Mr. Morrison at Hackney, "then our Party must be free to make a new declaration superseding that of the Trades Union Congress. Labor can give no blank check of approval to this Government. We are not interested in the struggles of rival imperialisms [British & Italian], and we are not going to be drawn into them...
...thousands people poured into Jacksonville (pop.: 7,000), "tomato capital of Texas," to see Queen Billye Sue Hackney crowned. A parade two miles long, with 25 floats, took one hour to pass through its streets. Trumpets blared across the baseball field, pages and ushers bowed and scraped as the Queen, escorted by the Royal Court of the Tomato, stepped up on a platform, and Jacksonville's Mayor Acker slipped a crown of jewels over her head. Jacksonville danced and drank far into the night at the Queen's Ball, and next day 5,000 farmers went...