Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salary of Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, sharp-tongued onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official red brick residences on Downing Street...
Followed a fanfare of trumpets. These military sounds in the House of God prefaced a great thanksgiving service for the King's recovery. Present in the Abbey were King George and Queen Mary, members of the royal family, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, members of the Diplomatic Corps and as many of the people of London as could crowd inside the doors. At the same time thanksgiving services were held in all other churches throughout the Empire...
...democratic form of government, or rather for the constitutional monarchy as it exists at present under King Boris, but I am opposed to any dictatorship from Left or Right. When I return I shall re-enter political life as a member of the National Liberal Party...
...sure that the present régime in my country is doomed to failure sooner or later. In fact I am thinking of returning within a year after a stay in Italy, where I know I have the friendship of King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Mussolini...
...spite of his vaunted present "poverty" King Amanullah and his party of 24 were met by four large limousines at Marseilles where they left the Mooltan and proceeded to Italy by rail...