Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Mayor's banquet (see above) in the Guildhall (the offices and Council Chamber of the Corporation of the City of London), Premier Baldwin arose to make the usual speech expected of British Prime Ministers on this occasion. Many times in the history of the Guildhall important political speeches have been voiced within its wall and have echoed to the dim, distant parts of the world. Premier Baldwin was at a disadvantage, however. Just reappointed Premier, he was compelled by custom to make his first speech, as such, before the first Cabinet Council had met. It was not, therefore...
...Westminster Hall in London was delivered the first of a series of memorial lectures to be given in memory of the late Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James' during...
...their own generation, and any one who knows of what the people of our sister dominions are thinking knows that some of them, particularly those who look out on the Pacific, feel that in Washington there is an instinctive understanding of difficulties which, when they come to London, they have laboriously to explain to Downing Street...
...banns have been published of John Daniel II and Jenny Lind, spinster. Mr. Daniel is a native of French Gabon and Miss Lind was born in Kevu. The marriage is to take place in London, where Miss Lind was taken by her guardian, Professor T. Alexander Barnes, as soon as Mr. Daniel, who is now on the high seas, returns from his visit to the U. S. with his chaperon Miss Alice Cunningham...
...When The London Times states a fact, a fact it is, with very few exceptions. Should The Times ever prove irresponsible, it would, after years of utmost solicitude, utterly disconcert the digestion of a vast Commonwealth. Likewise the editor of The Times. His position is well nigh that of a state official. His most private statement, his most guarded whisper, will, if overheard, be received with attention, credence, close scrutiny. Editors of The Times are therefore tight-lipped gentlemen, seldom heard from outside their own columns. But after they relinquish their duties...