Word: whigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election beanstalk had sprouted as none in Britain ever sprouted before. Century ago in the reign of King William IV there was something remotely like it. In 1831 the Second Earl Grey, Prime Minister, returned to Parliament with 370 Whig seats, the record party victory for all time until 1931. Last week the National Government of James Ramsay MacDonald returned supported by 476 Conservatives, 66 National Liberals, 13 National Laborites (including the Prime Minister) and 2 Independents. Total: the National Government holds the prodigious total of 557 seats in a House! of Commons of 615. Such miracles used to happen...
...finishing William Lynch's book several extremely vital and speculative questions are apt to arise in the mind of the reader. In the party battles it often appears that a strong, popular opposition, such as the Whig-Jacksonians under President Adams are forced to wait a four year term before it can come into power, acting in the meanwhile as a hindrance to the passage of important legislation. The situation is in marked contrast to the system employed in Great Britain and is as much a problem in our Constitution as it ever was. Much material for speculation is likewise...
...historicity of bathing in politics, erudite Dr. Cross reported: "I . . . found that there ~was never-a bathtub in the White House until under the Administration of Fillmore [1850-53], who was first a Whig or 'Know Nothing,' and later deteriorated into a Republican...
...Dartmouth, where "most of the stereotyped reminiscences of his friends seem to indicate that he was something of a prodigy and prig," Webster set his foot on the rung of Law, hoping the ladder would lead him to the presidency but his party, first calling itself Federalist, later Whig, was almost always out of power, too often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law. More, his cold dignity repelled warmhearted U. S. crowds. Thinks Biographer Fuess: "It may be that the American people admire...
...that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British Empire and World Progress." Young Mr. Churchill has two other addresses: "Can Youth Be Conservative?" and "Why I Am Not A Socialist...