Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge's bench in Iowa and 17 more years at a Representative's desk in Washington. In the present Congress and the two preceding it he had sat as chairman when the Ways & Means Committee was pondering long, statistical revenue bills. He was William Raymond Green, lord high custodian of the prime principle for which-the Fathers fought-taxation with representation...
...That on and after midnight of February twenty-second, year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty eight, no mask or visor shall be upon the helmet of the regalia of any Klansman. It shall therefore be unlawful for any Klansman to wear any mask or visor as part of his regalia, and each Klansman . . . shall . . . become a member of the Knights of the Great Forest...
...Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...
...Lord Askwith of St. Ives (1st Baron), tin magnate in the Straits Settlements mines, blew a double-stopped yet harmless blast of exaggeration at the Royal Colonial Institute held in London last week...
Died. Victor Alexander Fereld Hay, 52, for one year 20th Earl of Erroll and 24th Hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland, at Coblenz, Germany, where he had been British High Commissioner of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission since 1921; of heart disease...