Lords Reform Themselves After Bloodless Revolution
In a dramatic move echoing historic constitutional shifts, the British Lords voted 175 to 17 to relinquish a centuries old privilege, signaling a fundamental self reform following a recent American political upheaval where Speaker Cannon saw his autocratic powers curtailed.
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Robertus Love
Nuy
House of Representatives
House of Lords
Runnymede Plain
John of
England
Wiberties
Cannon
Reform of the house of lords debated and proposed
A discussion of Lord Rosebery's reform plan outlines ending hereditary sitting rights for peers while electing a legislative peers body. The piece notes current lords’ limited attendance, the political dynamic with the Commons, and royal power to create or erase peerages to influence votes.
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House OF Lords
Rosebery
Lord Rosebery
Commons
Oliver Cromwell
Lloyd-George
United Kingdom
Flexon
Laura Jean
England
Lord Newton
Tom Leigh
House of Commons
John
Victorian
Edward
Elizabeth
National fight on socialism organized by church leader
Dr Hill leads a nationwide anti socialist effort backed by Metropolitan temple supporters to unite churches seminaries unions and sociologists against socialist platforms led by Debs. The plan includes a national convention and a broad religious alliance to combat what he calls an irreconcilable enemy of the civic order.
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Hill
Percy Stickney Grant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension
Grant
Vatican
Velage
Leo XIII
Edward McGlynn
New York
McGlynn
United States
Metro- Politan Temple
Muthadlat Sovial Union
John Wesley
East Side
Eugene Victor Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
United States Senate
Department of Education
Department of Public Health
Department of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Socialist Party
Debs
United Labor Party
Dr. Hill
Will
J. M. Car
Peanut Goober Boom Boosts Southern Farming
Field agents report peanut acreage in the United States will triple last year as cotton losses from boll weevil drive farmers to peanut crops. Government experts credit peanuts for oil, food for humans and livestock, with Louisiana Texas and Arkansas leading plantings. Peanut oil production rises as eastern manufacturers plan new Louisiana factories. rise in pricing and yields noted alongside Virginia tidewater traditions.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Cean
W. R. Beattie
Renttie
France
Tidelands
Virginia
Tidewater Virginia
Smithfield
South
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Lord Desborough
Duke of Richmond
Earl of Westmeath
Lord Strathcona
Duke of Northumberland
Lord Onslow
Lord Powerscourt
John Wesley Hill
Uncle Sam
San Antone
Columbra
Oskalonsa
Columbia
T. Sapp
Lucindy
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