Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most feverish and pulse-quickening serious rumor of the week: His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been warned that if Proposal 4A is put into effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...Party which today wins most Egyptian elections by about 97%. The Wafd does not control Egypt for the reason that the country's Premier and its King are puppets imposed and maintained by the British Government which officially maintains that the country is also "The Free and Independent Kingdom of Egypt." For Zaghlul's widow last week all this was too much. In French she cried: "I am boycotting everything British, even the language. We Egyptian women are throwing our moral force and encouragement- and we are ready to give also our physical force, though...
...every working pithead in the United Kingdom last week smut-faced coal miners voted in favor of a nation-wide strike, 409,351 to 29,215. Yet afterward, with the characteristic attitude of such leaders as Britain's proletariat has been able to find, Secretary Ebenezer Edwards of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which conducted the poll, commented: "Nobody wants to strike...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...
...that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts of thousands of your followers that they, too, may follow you into the land where prejudice, greed, hatred, pride and fear are unknown-into the Kingdom of Heaven...