Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of previous British submarine disasters, Lt. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, Laborite, M. P., a retired naval officer, urged complete abolition of the submarine as an instrument of war, urged stopping construction on the six British submarines now under construction. Speaking next day in sooty, steel-manufacturing Sheffield, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander seemed to agree with him. Said...
Unemployment. As a first step in his plan to solve the unemployment problem, Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas introduced a resolution authorizing the Treasury to advance $5,000,000 a year to help develop the Colonies and Mandated Territories. Carefully he explained that by developing the Colonies (not the self-governing Dominions) they would directly aid British unemployment by increasing the demand for British exports in those colonies...
...vain. The H-47 lay in 324 feet of water. A gale was rising. In the House of Commons Britain's new First Sea Lord, Albert Victor Alexander, onetime railway yardworker, had his first important task in breaking the news of the disaster. He was obliged to conclude: "Steps are being taken with all despatch to locate the H-47. ... No hope can be entertained of any of the remainder of the crew being alive...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain's impotent minority Labor Government, reopened diplomatic relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Within a few months the Labor Government was defeated on its Russian policy, a general election was called. At the height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev...
...C.E.R.'s Telephone and Telegraph Co., seized by District Governor Chang Ching-Lin, reported the success of the stroke to President Chiang and to Manchuria's War Lord, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, awaiting word at Peking where they had planned the coup...