Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanley Baldwin was sorely nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
Worth struggling for has been the field - China with 400,000,000 people, East Indies with 50,000,000, India with 318,000,000. Everywhere Standard Oil was first. In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say. Mei Fooy is the Chinese name for Standard Oil. Shouting Mei Fooy out loudly once saved the life of Lucy Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s sister-in-law, when in 1923 Chinese bandits captured her. It was the only phrase she knew...
...India Sir Henri has used gang tactics for abusing Standard Oil. His English Shell Transport relations have brought him British government aid. Indian duties against Standard oil are higher than against Royal Dutch-Shell...
When they reached India, they slept in a low dirty town: a wind, as hot and sticky as a conjurer's hand, passed slowly in the air. After breakfast, they flew away...
...Most Hon. the Marquess of Reading, G. C. B., K. C. B. O., onetime Viceroy of India, a director of the National Provincial Bank Ltd., and of the Midland Bank...