Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
...himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could and very well might chase them from Warsaw, united in a desperate attempt to force...
...Liberals who obtained 101 seats in the last election gained 18 seats, raising their number to 119. Thus, Liberal Leader King need find only four more votes among the smaller parties to hold a whip hand majority of 123 over the House which numbers 245. He can unquestionably secure this majority, for eleven Liberal-Progressives markedly sympathetic to him were elected. "Straight Progressives" number eight; United Farmers of Alberta, eleven; Laborites, three; Independents...
...first he had the dormitory and college club crews in the fall and the club and two class crews in the spring. In 1913 he took over all class rowing, which has been his field until now, except for brie assignments, as in 1924 and last spring, to help whip the second University into shape for the Yale regatta. The victory of the Brown-coached second University crew over Yale on the Thames last June was one of the features of the regatta. The Blue was strongly favored to carry off the laurels, but after an early lead found itself...
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...