Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened in November 1921, the British delegation professed to be "surprised" when Secretary of State Hughes proposed what afterward was adopted as the 5-5-3 ratio with Japan at the short end and the U. S. and Britain sharing parity. One of the most surprised British delegates was Lord Lee, who, according to the Ochs memorandum, had himself proposed this particular surprise several months previously and had it transmitted to Washington by Publisher Ochs...
With the Japanese Press shrieking "Perfidious Albion" last week, Lord Lee in London gave a lie direct to the memorandum of the late Adolph S. Ochs and it seemed unlikely that Charles Evans Hughes would unbend as Chief Justice of the U. S. to tell what cannot be told by such dead men as President Harding, Publisher Ochs and Lord Balfour, who led the British Delegation at Washington. Said Lord Lee: "Lord Balfour and I found that plan a complete and absolute surprise...
This expression of surprise last week was the more remarkable because in 1933 the Ochs memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
...Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford, was driving 40 m.p.h. squarely in. the middle of a road on a foggy night when his sports car crashed into another whose driver was killed (TIME, Dec. 16), the Crown announced in Old Bailey last week that it would offer no evidence, and Lord de Clifford was held not guilty of dangerous driving...