Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire existence; principle all based upon the principle of permanence. But the encyclical also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much discussed in the Maline conversations sponsored by Viscount Halifax, long president of the English Church Union, and the late Cardinal Mercier...
...Viscount Shimpei Goto, onetime Mayor of Tokyo, arrived diffidently at Moscow. Cornered by correspondents, he protested: "I came here on no political, economic or indeed any specific mission." Pumped by a U. S. correspondent, he said...
...Telegraph?a transaction known to have involved more than one million pounds?elevates Sir Edward Berry still higher in his rank with the two greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect...
Since 1903 the sole direction of the conduct and policy of the Telegraph has been in the hands of Harry Lawson, Webster Lawson, now Viscount Burnham. His father had managed the property before him, and Lord Burnham has retained the family tone and tempo...
Through the years these men have come to know tubby, dynamic Viscount Burnham as an employer who labored no less conscientiously than they, and yet found both time and opportunity to chairman innumerable public welfare committees?for example, the King's Fund for Disabled Ex-Service...