Word: swayings
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Whatever the date of Dictator Primo de Rivera's wedding, Spaniards are relieved that he has chosen definitely, at last, among the too many ladies who have sought through him to sway the course of Spain. There was, for example, very recently, the Marquise de Arguelles. Perhaps it is well that her somewhat sinister influence will be supplanted by that of the Orphan & Spinster-who is one of the richest women in Spain, and accounted sage with the wisdom that comes from managing large monetary affairs...
Thus, the Chancellor defended his Budget with spirit, for some hours, careless or unconscious of his rising fever. Suddenly, however, he was seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must...
...driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...
...Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded today as on trial for its life, and unless tangible results are achieved in bringing supply closer to consumption in the near future, the ranks of those prepared to scrap the scheme and give the law of supply and demand free sway are likely to receive a considerable accession of strength...
...Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...