Word: warr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp...
...days last week. He was not at Lossiemouth. not at Chequers, not at "No. 10" (Downing Street). To be quite alone, to escape even from familiar furniture and beloved books, James Ramsay MacDonald went secretly to a country house placed at his disposal by Earl De La Warr. There with awful Scotch solemnity he searched his soul, faced a decision which if taken would mean a final break with...
...days in Earl De La Warr's house passed. Pale, unsmiling. Mr. MacDonald returned to Downing Street, had nothing to say. His doctor admitted the Prime Minister's "extreme nervous fatigue" but called his health satisfactory. Still torn by alternatives. Scot MacDonald week-ended at Chequers, returned to London still pale, still silent...
Replying for the Labor Government with asperity, Earl De La Warr said that the Treasury is already contributing "quite enough" to the Royal Vets, namely "30 shillings for every 20 shillings obtained by the governors of the college...
...have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr; and Queen Marie is of course of English birth, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria...