Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a wind all around the world that whispers to politicians what bills will pass, what bills will fail, long before votes are counted. It sighed in the round pink ear of the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill last week, and told him that, despite his burning Tory opposition, the Reform Bill, granting a considerable measure of self government to India, was very close to passage. But all his life the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has been a fighter. Sprawled on the front row Ministers' Bench last week he suddenly arose and addressed the Speaker...
...interest. Bond issues and old bank loans were coming due and the New York and London capital markets were closed to orthodox financing. Canada has no RFC because Canada has only two railroads (privately-owned Canadian Pacific and government-owned Canadian National*) and only eleven commercial banks. But solemn Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett has broad powers under The Emergency Relief Act. C. P. R.'s request was granted after it had pledged with the Government $100,000,000 face value of senior securities on which inter- est was being earned even last year...
Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
Episcopal churchmen tell of how Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, lately made a visitation in one of his parishes. Getting out of his automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...
...Backing his superior, the Lord Bishop of London cried out in a voice shaking with emotion: "I tell you, I would like to make a bonfire of these things, and dance around it." But not even the spectacle of the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram prancing in his gaiters and apron around a pyre of contraceptives could dissuade the Lords. The bill passed...