Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), 39; sentenced to death by hanging, awaiting action on his appeal at Wandsworth prison in London...
...Commons were three distinguished predecessors: Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Viscount Simon. Ex-cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the overcrowded House, critically eyed their man. From the packed gallery peered the Bank of England's Governor Lord Catto. To lords and cabbies, Hugh Dalton was about to open the new Socialist Government's first budget...
Usually rated diligent but dull, Hugh Dalton blushed when the House cheered him last week. Tories were relieved. Bankers beamed. Even Lord Catto, certain that his bank would soon be taken over by the new Government, was not shocked. Britain's new budget was a good, middle-of-the-road job. Next day, prices rose on London's stockmarket...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fred erick Laurence Field, 74, commander of the battleship King George V at the Battle of Jutland, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from 1930 to 1933; in York, England...
France had come to this crossroads through the ordeal of defeat and occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...