Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1888, when the International Council of Women was founded in Washington by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, quinquennials have been held at Rome, London, Berlin, Toronto, Christiania. At the latter capital, in 1920, the sessions were held in the Norwegian Parliament buildings and delegates were received by King Haakon and Queen Maud...
...London was wrapped in the darkness of night. A casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling...
While a proposal to institute a private banking system was under consideration, a grant was made for 50 years to the Lena Goldfields Co., Ltd., of London for exploitation of the Lena gold fields of Siberia. This company operated the gold fields before the War and will take over immediately all the mines and equipment which are now operated and owned by the Moscow Government...
Although "many Siberian peasants would give a cow for a Bible," the Bolshevik Government does not permit importation of the Christian book. So asseverated the British and Foreign Bible Society in London...
...mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected in the jungle effected the first direct wireless communication between South America and London...