Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an act adultery? A sin, or a triumph of science? Last week these questions were exercising the best legal, religious and journalistic minds of Britain. Hearing MacLennan's suit, Lord Wheatley, a Roman Catholic judge of Scotland's Court of Session, listened to the argument of MacLennan's lawyer that the real essence of adultery is not how it is accomplished, but "the surrender of a woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know...
...Lord Wheatley's ruling raised more questions than it settled. Father Paul Crane, a Roman Catholic spokesman, declared: "Human beings are not cattle to be bred by test tubes. Only a pagan world would treat them as such." Britain's popular press disagreed, argued that artificial insemination could bring comfort to women previously unable to conceive. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, addressed the synod of the Convocation of Canterbury on the issue. Whether or not artificial insemination by donor was legally held to be a crime or not, he said, it was a sin in the eyes...
...earned wide respect for his ability in administering the thorny ministries of Pensions and Agriculture, has been described as "everybody's second choice for every senior post in the government." Thorneycroft was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to resign in protest against government policy since 1886, when Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Winston's father, quit the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury.* Despite all Harold Macmillan's reassurances, so drastic a protest inevitably stirred fears that the government was, in fact, backing away from the stern fiscal policies that have halted the drain on Britain's gold...
...Grandfather of the present Lord Salisbury, who last year as Tory leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council resigned in protest against Harold Macmillan's Cyprus policy...
Died. Frank Henry Willard, 64, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate cartoonist, creator of derby-hatted urchin Kayo, somnolent Lord Plushbottom and other cronies of banjo-eyed Moon Mullins in the long-running (since 1924) comic strip; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...