Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas William Lamont. First authoritative word that choleric Chancellor Snowden was losing the support of British financiers came at London from Thomas William Lamont, brisk, decisive, crinkly-eyed partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. Chatting with a correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young...
...explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...
Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...
Stupid officials in Bengal had taken the least efficient means of trying to hush up something likely to embarrass the new Prime Minister. It was one thing for plain citizen MacDonald to write for the British Laborite London Daily Herald two years ago certain words quoted by Dr. Sunderland. It is quite another thing to let such words go booming around India today, now that citizen MacDonald is also Prime Minister. The two-year old possibly "seditious"* words of Scot MacDonald are: "The moral justification that has always been made for the existence of our empire amongst subject peoples...
...Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became editor of the puny Social Democratic Herald, changed it to the Milwaukee Leader, developed it into a potent Socialist organ...