Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This spectacle . . . where the Republican minority, aided by a band of 100 or more renegade Democrats, has conducted a war dance around the bounden, prostrate form of labor in the well of that House, whirling like dervishes and dancing with glee when [it] is able to do something to hamstring labor...
...Like Paris and Berlin, London is ringed with guns, balloons, and searchlights. The special province of the British is the multiplication of instructive pamphlets with titles as long as Punch captions ( Your gas mask, how to keep it and how to use it; some things you should know if war should come). They are crammed with common sense and pat slogans like: "Take Care of Your Gas Mask and Your Gas Mask Will Take Care of You." When enemy planes are overhead, "the motto for safety will be Keep it Dark." Britons are warned to memorize the types of raid...
...tangled family, social, economic and political relationships of Government supporters in the House of Commons. Called Tory M.P., believed the work of several contributors who write under the common pseudonym of "Simon Haxey, " it is an unobtrusive piece of political dynamite, abundantly proves its main point-that people like Lord Balniel are not exceptional among Conservative* members...
...Like 100 of his Parliamentary colleagues, Lord Balniel went to Eton. Like 180 of the 415 Tory M.P.s, he is a director of a corporation. He is younger than the average Tory in the House (50), but he is like the majority in his widespread family connections: on Government benches, in the House of Lords, in the Cabinet, he has cousins, in-laws, distant relatives, as have the Scotts, Stanleys, Cavendishes and the Guests who can count 77 past and present M.P.s related by blood or marriage...
...disgusted with the cheap publicity. The papers in Paris carried the story and it has hurt him tremendously. I didn't know it meant so much to him. You know he has a certain standard to maintain here and now he has been completely ruined. He is not like the Americans. He can trace his ancestry back for 600 years. He has never been a slave and neither have any of his people. He is of Royal blood and this sort of gossip touches his family. I don't know whether I will ever marry...