Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Party comes into power, or when it comes into power, who will be Lord High Chancellor of England? The Labor Party is weak in the Commons; in the Lords it is practically nonexistent. As the post of Chancellor is one of considerable importance to any government...
Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such...
...admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom he neither likes nor loves, and groups...
...League for Industrial Democracy, spoke on Modern Industrialism: "Americans boast of 57-story buildings, while underneath, store girls are sweated to death at eight and ten dollars a week. ... If Jesus Christ worked in a modern American factory he would be immediately fired as an agitator, for our Lord would undoubtedly have stood up for the rights of the workers...
...world, it will be a witness for God, and for the things of the Spirit, the power of which will be felt not only in this metropolis but in our national life. It will stand before our people a visible evidence of the power among us of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that faith in Him upon which the future of the world depends...