Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey and graceful little U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis nominated British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare for President of the Conference, and for Vice President the First Lord of the British Admiralty, new Viscount Monsell of Evesham (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell). These nominations were adopted by acclaim. At the time President ''Flying Sam" Hoare was on his way to wintersport in Switzerland...
This was sympathetic Squire Baldwin's bumbling way of conveying to His Majesty an expression of the Cabinet's grief on learning that not even Lord Dawson of Penn, who saved George V's life seven years ago, had been able to save the King's elder sister, H. R. H. Princess Victoria, who died last week (TIME...
...Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I deeply regret I am not addressing you in person...
...vain Labor M.P.'s stormed that the Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government is oleaginous to the point that, while arousing the League to impose sanctions, it is largely supplying Italy with oil through the petroleum companies it controls or owns. The Lords: ¶ Spent last week the first $5,000 of an estimated $50,000 which they will spend on the trial of Lord de Clifford commencing this week. Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant...
...amending its rights and powers. There are six folio volumes labelled "Autographs of English, Scotch, and Irish Peers; South Sea Documents", which contain the list of victims. Here are to be found the documents and signatures of George II, and Queen Caroline when Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Chesterfield, the Earl of Buckingham, and Sir Robert Walpole, as well as countless others...