Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of beloved George V filled the Kingdom's illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks...
London. Information was circulated to the Press by His Majesty's Government that, during the past two weeks, measures have been taken to raise the armament of the United Kingdom as rapidly as possible by expending...
...seat representing the Scottish Universities, notwithstanding that as Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sought and failed some years ago to combine the three Scottish Universities' seats into one. Last week the Scottish academicians recognized that Mr. MacDonald is now as Conservative as any man in the Kingdom, sent him to the House of Commons where Conservatives cheered and Laborites jeered. C. Speeded extension of Unemployment...
...Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. This advice His Majesty was graciously pleased to act upon at once. Expostulations began coming in from Scotland that since His Majesty has not been separately proclaimed King "of England" but jointly and indissolubly "of the United Kingdom" it is "impossible" for him to bear the title Edward VIII. He is, the Scots stubbornly contended, King Edward II of the United Kingdom, since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects...
...land. In George Bernard Shaw's preface to Androcles and the Lion, in the form of a running commentary on the New Testament, the British playwright made a convincing Socialist out of Jesus Christ. But Christian Conservatives point to Christ's statement: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things [food, shelter, clothing] shall be added unto you. The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to Communism and Socialism insofar as they are materialistic, violent and irreligious. To Catholics the encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI represent the core of an ideal, workable...