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THEY SWORE NOT TO SPECULATE AGAIN: But City History Repeats Itself--The Financial Crisis When England Went Mad ..

... country would revert to a metal currency. Unconstitutional exercise of power. Viola tion of statutory rights, yelled the Whigs and Radicals. The Bank of England was to establish branches in provincial centres. Gross inter ference, roared the Tory m ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1857 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THEY SWORE NOT TO SPECULATE AGAIN: But City History Repeats Itself--The Financial Crisis When England Went Mad ..

... country would revert to a metal currency. Unconstitutional exercise of power. Viola tion of statutory rights, yelled the Whigs and Radicals. The Bank of England was to establish branches in provincial centres. Gross inter ference, roared the Tory m ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1857 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... emerged from the backwoods to provide last week's political sensation. None who; prizes the old Liberal tradition (legacy of the Whigs) can cavil at the careful and deliberate choice of the words in wjiich he announced that he and his following in the Party ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1946 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... politics he belonged rightly to the eighteenth century, to the days when men spoke their minds about political opponents, when a Whig was a red devil with a forked tail to any decent Tory, when a man was either a gentleman or a person beyond the pale of criticism ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2162 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter: Bromley

... letter written to my grandfather by Mr. Calcraft, a member of the Govern ment who attended the ceremony. At heart a broad-minded Whig, he voices the general expectation of the failure of a fantastic and impious attempt to steal fire from Olympus. A Short Life ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2125 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... suffered to die of neglect. The Shame of My Party. I was once a Liberal. When it became impos sible any longer to call itself Whig my family labelled itself Liberal. We praised famous men such as the G.O.M. and understood that the Liberal Party had inherited ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2077 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE POLITICAL CIRCUS

... dangerous than their chronic disunion of recent years. It would appear that divisions go deeper. There are a few old-fashioned Whigs whose representa tion in the House is probably disproportionate to their strength in the country. Such cultivate a kind of ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1685 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE POLITICAL CIRCUS

... dangerous than their chronic disunion of recent years. It would appear that divisions go deeper. There are a few old-fashioned Whigs whose representa tion in the House is probably disproportionate to their strength in the country. Such cultivate a kind of ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1685 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... workers may get a glimmer of the truth and of the instant need of com mon sacrifices. What Would Gladstone Have Done A good old Whig- turned-Liberal, whose political memories are of the great days of Dizzy and the G.O.M., who has for some time hitched his ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2501 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

GROSVENOR--MAYFAIR

... beautiful, she has intelli gence, charm, and vitality in other words, she is alive. Debutantes should please note. Yes, Margaret Whig- ham is quite the smart est jeune fille London has seen for a long time her clothes are original do not depend entirely on ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 865 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs