Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reform of the House of Lords moved another step when Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, proposed that membership of the House be reduced from 700 to 300. The chief features of his proposal, which received considerable support...
...noble Lord went on to say that, in the advent of a Labor Cabinet, it would have representation in the Upper House...
...waves of Communism from the shores of Capitalism. It was a fearless step to save Russia from economic ruin. It showed that Moscow Communists, whatever else they were, were not afraid to admit their errors and rectify them; but the Party held many diehards, notably ex-War Lord Trotzky. The N. E. P. was kept in force until 1923. Private traders began to gain confidence. The Government flirted with foreign Powers. The Russian Bear began to raise itself on its bony haunches...
Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik ex-War Lord, man of many parts, may know what part he plays at present. But, last week, he led the press of the world a merry dance, guessing which it was. The following are brief synopses of the week's successive reports concerning...
...Land. Some days later, he arrived at Alex- andria, Egypt's greatest seaport. Thence went he to Cairo, the capi- tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount of Olives, known as Mt. Scopus, stands the Hebrew Univer- sity which he had come to open?which all Zionist Jewry considers of the utmost importance in the growth of what...