Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jenny Lee. Britain's most potent industrialist, Lord Melchett, saw his son, the Hon. Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter...
Unemployment. In electioneering on the major issue of unemployment, the Labor Leader, James Ramsay MacDonald, is promising nowadays into many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living wage for the jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going...
...energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser!" should hornswoggle the country, outsmart everyone in post-election bar gaining, and by hook or crook achieve the Prime Ministry once more...
Sped six years. The new Prime Minister was that savage atheist M. Georges Clemenceau, well called "The Tiger." One day Catholic Foch was bidden to luncheon by Atheist Clemenceau. They merely chatted until the General reached the point of raising and sipping his demitasse, when The Tiger suddenly flashed, "You are the new Director of the War College! I have just signed your appointment...
Equally frigid and correct are the relations of "Tiger" Clemenceau with the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine," M. Raymond Poincaré−now Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied...