Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been thirty-three years since the first Godkin Lecture was given by the British historian, Lord Bryce. In that span many able scholars and political figures have carried on the vigorous spirit of Edwin Lawrence Godkin. These lectures are a tribute both to the man whose name they bear and to the cause of uncorrupt democracy for which he fought...
Godkin, born in Ireland, came to America in 1856 with an Irishman's love for democracy and an Irishman's will to secure it. As editor of the "Nation" and the "Evening Post" he maintained a tireless attack upon Tammany and base politics in general. When President Eliot introduced Lord Bryce in 1903, he said, "These lectures upon government and civic duty are in remembrance of a man who gave his life to the public through the medium of the press . . . Mr. Godkin was a man of remarkable vigor and great candor, and unremitting devotion to lofty ideals of public...
...That Dominion subjects should have muscled in to this extent was surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world...
...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...