Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...areas; by 20% in South Wales and Monmouthshire; and in West Cumberland by 10%-a record supposed to vindicate His Majesty's Government on the do-nothing charge. Next the House of Commons was told last week that the ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) recently given by Lord Nuffield ("Henry Ford of Great Britain") to succor the Depressed Areas and as a personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used...
...enlarge the Monroe Doctrine, so that in case of war the United Kingdom would enjoy shelter under this U. S. umbrella, was outlined to Their Lordships last week by the Marquess of Lothian, fresh from the U. S. Alarmed by what he had learned of U. S. neutrality legislation, Lord Lothian warned that in the next war Britain may not only find it impossible to borrow from the U. S. but suffer even more. "In certain circumstances we may be debarred from buying raw materials and foodstuffs," cried the Marquess, "even if we have the cash in the United States...
Their Lordships were next reminded that "Britain would not have emerged a victor from the World War except for assistance from the United States," and then Lord Lothian outlined a scheme by which, instead of U. S. assistance being borrowed or bought, it would be given to Britain. "If one could get an extension of the Monroe Doctrine and a combination of the democracies under the Monroe System with the British Commonwealth sufficiently closely integrated so as to be invulnerable and able to stand outside the vortex of a European war, one would create a centre of stability and peace...
...made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political Cartoonist Low merrily drew First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain resealing the Prime Minister...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...