Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the London Times called "power to exercise his unfettered choice as to Ministers, regardless of any claim based on long party services or the precise proportions of parties in the ranks of his supporters." To exercise this choice the Prime Minister rushed off to Chequers, his official country seat, while London buzzed with predictions...
Left to head the Labor Party in Parliament (unless a "safe seat" is found for Mr. Henderson at a by-election) were a shrewd oldster and a smart youngster...
...system: Most brokers announced before the General Election that they thought the National Government would win a majority of 210 seats. Pessimists who "sold" (bet) one pound against this majority lost a pound for each seat that the National Government's majority went above 210, and it went to 557. Optimists who "bought" won fantastic sums as the Government's prodigious total swelled. For example a Miss Anne Simms, stock exchange typist, who bought one ?5 unit, won ?1,735 or over $6,000 on her $19.50 bet. For such bets Nov. 10 is settlement day. Numerous broker...
...ruler" of a plot of ground about the size of the Papal State. In London this scheme is being urged by Shankat Ali, Moslem Delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference. But Christian Britain, who rules Jerusalem, hesitates to make the "Holy City" of Jews and Christians the seat of Islam's Caliphate. What...
...vote they can be depended on to always vote for peace. "French women are impulsive," retorted anti-Feminist Jose, "they could vote for war as well as peace. Many would vote contrary to their husbands in a spirit of contradiction. I would prefer a dozen babies to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...