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...Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greatest Prime Minister | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry machines such as electric ice cream freezer and an automatic potato peeler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

Cheese-it and Peeler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stirring Torchlight Parades Marked College Campaigns Half-Century Ago | 10/10/1924 | See Source »

...Hang such mud, anyway! Three cheers for the house on the right, 750 times! Ditto for house on left, 700 times! Ladies in the balcony, 50 each! Ladies with Roman candles, three! Contemplative peeler on left, one! Bully for the man who treated to coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stirring Torchlight Parades Marked College Campaigns Half-Century Ago | 10/10/1924 | See Source »

...Royce 2L, who was recently elected president of the Law Review for the year 1917-1918, yesterday appointed Lloyd Harold Landau 2L, Wisconsin 1915, of Milwaukee, Wis., Note Editor of the Review; Joseph David Peeler 2L, Alabama 1915, of Huntsville, Ala., Case Editor, and Cecil Hurxthal Smith 2L, '15, of Cambridge, Book Review Editor. Dean Gooderham Acheson 2L, Yale 1915, of Middletown, Conn., has recently been elected treasurer of the Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Review Positions Filled | 3/17/1917 | See Source »

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