Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... later he moved up to the Chancellor- ship of the Exchequer , and with the beginning of his historic fights to reform the budget began his really controlling influence in the direction of the affairs of his country . And it was a ...
... later he moved up to the Chancellor- ship of the Exchequer , and with the beginning of his historic fights to reform the budget began his really controlling influence in the direction of the affairs of his country . And it was a ...
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... later , and Mr. Asquith had stepped close to the brink of ruin over the consequences in Ulster where Orangemen and British soldiers alike were in open defiance of his government's policy . It has been charged that Germany chose this ...
... later , and Mr. Asquith had stepped close to the brink of ruin over the consequences in Ulster where Orangemen and British soldiers alike were in open defiance of his government's policy . It has been charged that Germany chose this ...
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... later on it is sometimes forgotten with what skill the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 1914 mobilized the Empire's greatest moneyed brains about him and made effective the first gigantic financing of the war . From that moment on he ...
... later on it is sometimes forgotten with what skill the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 1914 mobilized the Empire's greatest moneyed brains about him and made effective the first gigantic financing of the war . From that moment on he ...
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... later - and by autumn the round table conferences that produced the treaty between the two nations had begun . One week the London press , inspired from Down- ing Street , heaped filth on the head of Michael Col- lins as " chief of the ...
... later - and by autumn the round table conferences that produced the treaty between the two nations had begun . One week the London press , inspired from Down- ing Street , heaped filth on the head of Michael Col- lins as " chief of the ...
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... later opened his eyes . He had by that time become an ardent naturalist , and Egypt and the Continent were interesting for their birds , if not for their monuments . He spent a winter in a German family in Dresden and returned to ...
... later opened his eyes . He had by that time become an ardent naturalist , and Egypt and the Continent were interesting for their birds , if not for their monuments . He spent a winter in a German family in Dresden and returned to ...
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