Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was more to it than that. Behind Mr. Churchill were assumed to be Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and the Secretary for India, Lord Birkenhead, all ex-coalition Ministers. Nasty things were said about Mr. Churchill; he was credited with a desire to oust Premier Baldwin and, with the aid of his coalition comrades, to install himself as Premier...
...Admiralty's demands were met. This was all very well. More ships meant more money and Mr. Churchill was holding the purse strings and seemed determined to keep on holding them. How could he induce the Chancellor to accede to the King's wishes. He confided in the Lord President of the Council,* Lord Arthur James Balfour, who suggested, as a compromise, that the money needed for the naval replacements should be furnished by economies in the three fighting services. Mr. Churchill accepted and the Cabinet was again happy...
...Cabinet post of Lord President of the Council is a sinecure. An experienced statesman whom the ministers may consult is usually accorded the place...
Although faced by the gray dawn of a national strike, the British public turned with interest to the publication of the will of the late Lord Curzon, Marquis of Kedleston...
...Lord Curzon was twice married. His first wife, who bore him three daughters, was Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. His second wife, widow of one Alfred Duggan, daughter of J. Monroe Hinds, former U. S. Minister to Brazil, bore him no children, but had three of her own by her first marriage...