Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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lord Chancellor: The Viscount Cave...
...long meeting. When the minutes were read, the members were surprised to hear embodied in them certain sentiments toward England expressed last May by the Club's president, W. C. Greene, at a dinner attended by some 400 Rhodes Scholars and a scattering of British notables-Viscount Grey, Viscount Milner, Rudyard Kipling. It seemed that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were eager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal...
...America is sending us to Hell." Because of this unfortunate state of affairs (arising from the U. S. Immigration Bill) Viscount Kentaro Kaneko resigned as President of the America-Japan Society in Tokyo. For many years Viscount Kaneko was active in promoting American-Japanese relations. At the age of 71 he reflects that he is a Harvard graduate, class of '78, that he has held many political and semipolitical posts. In 1905, at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, he was sent on a mission to the U. S. in the capacity of Financial Commissioner. It was during...
...Died. Viscount Long, 70, former First Lord of the Admiralty, Chief Secretary for Ireland; at his home, Rood Ashton, England. A few months ago he published his Memories (TIME, Sept. 29, FOREIGN NEWS...
MEMORIES-The Rt. Hon. Viscount Long of Wraxall-Button ($7.50). Lord Long, better known in Britain as Walter Long, comes from a class that is known as the "landed gentry." In this book he reviews his career from the nursery floor to the floor of the House of Commons, which he not so many years ago left for the House of Lords. His career is not particularly interesting for the simple reason that Long is not a particularly interesting man; but his incidental descriptions of human society during the Victorian and Edwardian ages are full of point and show with...