Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public speech said many valuable works in Britain's private libraries were crossing the Atlantic. American imports of paintings, etchings and antiques from London only for the first six months of 1923 were $3,716,644, and will probably exceed $8,000,000 for the year. Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject on the floor of Commons and called for the Government to offer fair prices to magnates who are compelled to sell their objets d'art to Americans to pay their income taxes. These men would often sell to Englishmen...
...neighbors sometimes agree; four neighbors, very rarely. In 1911 the Liberals were in power in Canada, and W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Ministry, negotiated a reciprocity tariff agreement with Secretary Knox of the Taft Administration. Champ Clark swung the Democrats of the House of Representatives for reciprocity. Thereby three neighbors came into agreement: the Republicans (U. S.), the Democrats (U. S.) and the Liberals (Canada). The Conservatives (Canada) were the fourth neighbor. They overturned the pudding-and the Laurier Cabinet-in a special election. At the end of twelve years' political vicissitudes...