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...stalwart, cane-swinging young Royalists, Les Camelots du Roi. When Senator Borah stood up to broadcast from quiet Washington he little suspected that wildest pandemonium was already loose beneath the Trocadéro loudspeakers that were to shout his words. A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury which Viscount...
...Lords- ¶ Received into their House former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who, scarcely able to support the weight of his ermine-barred, scarlet robes, hobbled painfully on his two canes up to Lord Chancellor Sankey and piped "I, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, swear by Almighty God that I will bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help...
Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Identify the following, indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser...
Among the men who have delivered the Dodge lectures in the past have been William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Viscount James Byrce, Elihu Root, and Samuel Walker McCall. They were given last year by Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at the Harvard Law School...