Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. If such an election were held in the U. S., the results would be obvious: the Laborites would be in power, the Conservatives would be the next most important group, the Liberals could be ignored. In England, however, precisely the reverse was the case. The 47 Liberals were most...
Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on...
¶ Even narrower than Lady Astor's was the squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a...
At an afternoon ceremony M. Pierre Marraud, French Minister of Public Instruction, formally presented the pictures to U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour, who thanked him gracefully. Later the audience strolled about the hall to look at the pictures. They were curious to see the 1,400...
Onetime Minister of Justice Louis Barthou's inscription was: "It is spirit which prepares for peace-it is hearts which make it."