Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...
...prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
...Lord Halifax thus argued from the premise that Germany would actually have fought if Munich had not given Hitler what he demanded - a major premise now challenged by critics of the Prime Minister, who insist that "Hitler was only bluffing. There was no real danger of war." Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result...
Canadian Prime Minister King was on a West Indies holiday last week, and Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir announced after the Prime Minister's return that a committee headed by Mr. King will begin to draft an itinerary to be followed by Their Majesties in North America...
...done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...