Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the deploring vote of Their Lordships, Sir Esmond Ovey left London last week for Moscow as His Majesty's ambassador to the Reds...
...Witnessed an appalling sight as extreme Left-wing Laborites revolted from their party and voted with the Conservative Opposition for the first time in history, thus nearly toppling down the Labor Cabinet on the eve of the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Parley...
Ministress of Labor Margaret ("Saint Maggie'') Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...
...Nations are hurled at our heads enumerating peace establishments, which mean nothing. . . . The League is in danger of failure, through being run by flapdoodlers! It has done nothing but sit for ten years. It is the old question of petrol [gasoline] without a machine. There's nothing left of the League today but perfume...
From that day no Pope left his self-imposed "imprisonment" within the comparatively narrow confines of the Vatican, no member of the Italian Royal Family set foot on Papal ground. At last came the Lateran Treaties, re-establishing the temporal power of the Pope (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week the onetime Prince of Naples, now King of Italy, called on the onetime Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. To 40 million Italians, to 331 million Roman Catholics, it was a day of reconciliation never to be forgotten...