Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good old Mac eventually appeared, smiling, hair tousled. Later it was announced that Finance Expert Snowden was to be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Union Worker Thomas was to receive the medieval title of Lord Privy Seal, to be charged with the most important of Labor's problems: solving unemployment...
...James Henry Thomas Lord Privy Seal...
James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, one-time errand boy and engine cleaner, last week became the Right Honorable James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain. By his new title the onetime errand boy legally takes precedence over all the dukes of Britain...
...been looking for a sinecure or a popular office this is certainly not the one I should have chosen," said Privy Seal Thomas. "We fought the election largely on unemployment, and we all believe it to be the only real fundamental question involved. I realize what I am up against...
...effect, the president and fellows of Harvard University agreed that the institute founded by the society should have a name--"X College"; that they should be the visitors of X College, and that the president should countersign the diplomas of X College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name of the proposed college that of Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, who in 1643 had provided a scholarship and was the first...