Word: parmoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
...Lord Parmoor gazed at him acidly. "I meant," said he, "the great Lord Salisbury...
Responding for the MacDonald Government, Labor Lord Parmoor dryly observed : "I do not think any legislation in connection with the Treaty is necessary except ratification, and. ratification will not come before this House [but before the House of Commons...
Next day, twinkling-eyed, conciliatory Lord Parmoor made hasty rounds among at least a hundred members of his House, found the Earl of Beauchamp (Liberal Leader in the Lords) anxious to smooth things over, and the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Leader) in a huff, still repeating that "The duties of the Lords are revisory and cannot be abdicated in the face of threats...
...result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...