Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182Were informed by Viscount Cecil that the Government would not seek immediate ratification of its anti-strike bill, because certain (Yorkshire) mine owners had refused to offer their men what the Cabinet deemed adequate wages on the basis of the eight-hour day contemplated in the bill...
...Grew restless as the hour of their august dinners approached and the Earl de la Warr, Viscount Haldane, and Barons Parmoor, Arnold, Thomson, ("Labor Peers") began a determined filibuster against the bill...
Jaunty on many a British jurists' brow there perches the halo of high levity. Thus girt are Viscount Haldane and (notoriously) Baron Darling. Both are members of Britain's highest court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual...
...Viscount Haldane: "Once, when a burglar in the Exchequer Court asked for an accounting against his partner, the Court clapped both into prison. A man cannot invoke his own wrong-doing against...
...Viscount, Cecil: "My Lords, it would be a very weak woman who could not withstand the physical demands upon members of the upped House...