Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere and Baron Beaverbrook...
Solemnly before these most astute and potent moulders of opinion, Viscount Reading came out in unqualified endorsement of the Lloyd George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...
...year-old Viscount slammed the door on reporters and cameramen. "Now perhaps you guys will leave my pop alone," he jeered...
...From appearance and actions," wired the English reporters, "Viscount Perceval is one of the toughest 'kids' that ever came out of the American continent...
Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo...