Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King of the Belgians drove straight to his Embassy in London. There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Opposition Leader Major Clement Attlee, a few such fascinating British parliamentary figures as Winston Churchill, plus a British Foreign Office contingent: Mr. Eden, Lord Cranborne, Mr. Orme Garton Sargent, etc. etc. After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the evening drew aside and got down to cases with the British expert on the issues in question, Mr. Orme Sargent...
...sure yet that what happened in Germany couldn't happen here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
Concluded Lord Melchett: "In the hands of Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defense] there is the famous War Book, containing detailed plans about practically everything for the event of war. Well, we ought to have a Peace Book, mobilization plans for times of peace!" ¶ "Officials here are trying assiduously to prevent the British Lion from roaring or showing its teeth as Mussolini twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly...
...horse races. Since 1930, 20 such Sweepstakes have paid out some $170,000,000 in prizes, made some $70,000,000 for Irish hospitals. Last week, four days before England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, Sweepstakes drawings were held in Mansion House, residence of Dublin's Lord Mayor Alfred ("Alfie") Byrne...
...scheme, from the point of view of Ireland, is that it not only sup ports Irish hospitals so luxuriously but does so almost entirely at the expense of the rest of the world. The drawing itself is naturally a Dublin shindig. Last week, as usual, the hall in the Lord Mayor's man sion was appropriately decorated, this time to represent "That Drawn-the-Favorite Feeling," with a stage set representing a Castle of Dreams. When the tickets had been drawn, by Ireland's prettiest young nurses, it was found that, also as usual, a minute proportion...