Word: lording
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lord Wright of Durley, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and one of the most active figures in the development of recent English Law, will deliver four free public lectures on the Common Law at the Law School tonight, Wednesday, Friday, and next Monday, it was announced today...
...subjects of Lord Wright's lectures...
...London Times last fortnight, 33 M.P.s dispatched a statement approving the Oxford Group's "crusade for moral rearmament which appears to be spreading rapidly." Signers included not only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery...
When the Freethinkers' congress (first to be held in England in 50 years) was announced last April. Lord Glasgow and 70 M. P.s unsuccessfully backed a Blasphemy Bill especially designed to outlaw it. The Home Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...