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...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
...Like every other anachronistic institution in Britain," Scot MacDonald told a Labor audience at Worksop, "the House of Lords must be subject to the will, desire and mandate of the electors. We shall appoint new peers when they are necessary to do our work. The House of Lords has acted not as a national body but as a subordinate or subcommittee of Tory headquarters. The time has arrived when that has got to be stopped!" (Cheers...
...entire day's session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...
...final showdown words did not count. Decisive was the Liberal-Laborite ("Lib-Lab") Pact made just before Parliament recessed between Scot MacDonald and Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, frequently rumored since to have broken down...
...vote of 305 to 251 Scot MacDonald triumphed, consolidating his power as the Liberals swung into line. In London well-posted observers soon said, "The Cabinet will not fall before fall...