Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
...Centre, shrewdly designed to weave and weasel between the Socialist Left and the Nationalist Right. The Nationalists have been supporting Herr Gessler because they thought he was preparing in secret an army of revenge; while the Socialists have credited him with building up a force to bulwark the Republic against Nationalist attempts to restore the Monarchy. Since Herr Gessler's activities have been carried on in secret these two antithetical impressions could exist. The facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series of military trials. War Minister Gessler has been shown...
...Hour. Jugoslavs turned in their alarm and uncertainty to the great Pashitch, the bulwark of the present dynasty, the statesman who trebled the Kingdom of Serbia at Versailles, expanding it into Jugoslavia...
...source of raw materials. Therefore it was at London that the doings of Ministers Tewfik and Tchitcherin were watched most anxiously last week. In England it was felt that the understandings known to have been arrived at by British agents with the Shah of Persia would prove a bulwark in that quarter...
Notre Dame against the Army, fancy football against buck-and-duck, nine first downs to seven, 207 yards gained to 127, Chris Flanagan against All-American Harry Wilson, Knute Rockne against the pride and bulwark of the nation, Notre Dame, 7; Army...