Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political Reaction. Onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labor Party, accused Premier Stanley Baldwin and his ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...days and nights speaker Trifkovitch of the National Congress watched over the Great Leader, then fainted from exhaustion...
...race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry,' and, like Joshua, who succeeded Moses as the Jews' leader, a 'prince in Israel' who had neither inheritance nor riches to thank for his preeminence. All this acclaim seemed to have resulted from the facts that, since the age of 12, I had studied constitutions and their law, practicing...
...their dormitories, and they will practice in these groups for their final competition Dr. Davison also plans that each dormitory shall have an orchestra to accompany the singing. A cup goes to the hall with the winning chorus at the Jubilee, and a baton is the prize for its leader...
...policy was to secure the internal material welfare of Sardinia, so that she might become the leader in the struggle for Italian unity and independence. By a comprehensive revision of taxes and a stiffening of the industrial backbone of the country, he procured his desired internal reform...