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1922 and Conservative
Scottish educated Andrew Bonar Law led a Conservative government from 1922 to 1923 and another Scot, Ramsey MacDonald, would be the Labour Party's first Prime Minister in 1924 and again from 1929-35.
Shortly afterwards, on January 24, 1922, the Conservative movement publicized the 71-page response written by Ginzberg tackling the halakhic aspects of drinking grape juice instead of wine in light of the historical circumstances.
During the Chanak Crisis of 1922, King refused to support the British without first consulting Parliament, while the Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, supported Britain.
Goodhart is best known for his book on the workings of the Conservative MPs ' 1922 Committee, and for his brother Charles, who was a famous economics professor at LSE and sat for some time on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee.
He was a Conservative politician and served as Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1921 and as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1922 to 1924.
In 1922 he, along with most of the Conservative leadership, resigned with Lloyd George's government following the Conservative back-bench revolt against the continuance of the coalition.
Like many of the Coalition leaders he did not hold office in the Conservative governments of 1922 – 4, although as an elder statesman he was consulted by the King in the choice of Baldwin as Bonar Law's successor as Conservative leader in May 1923.
Under leadership vote of confidence rules, 15 % of Conservative MPs ( at this point twenty-five MPs ) had to write to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee demanding the vote.
Unlike many leading Conservative members of Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, Curzon ceased to support Lloyd George over the Chanak Crisis and had just resigned when Conservative backbenchers voted at the Carlton Club meeting to end the Coalition in October 1922.
Dabbling in politics, despite his family's Liberal Party sympathies, he ended up working as secretary to the London Conservative group of MPs in the United Kingdom general election, 1922.
In the interests of impartiality the ballot was organised by the 1922 Committee, the backbench Conservative MPs.
Oswald Mosley was the youngest elected Conservative MP before crossing the floor in 1922, joining first the Labour Party and, shortly afterwards, the Independent Labour Party.
He was later Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham from 1909 to 1919, a member of the London County Council from 1916 to 1919, and served as Conservative MP for Fulham East from 1918 to 1922, retiring after falling out with his party on the issue of tariff reform.
In the autumn of 1922, Chamberlain faced a backbench revolt ( largely led by Stanley Baldwin ) designed to oust Lloyd George, and when he summoned a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club on 19 October, a motion was passed in favour of fighting the forthcoming election as an independent party.
* C. C. Weston, The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846 – 1922 ( 1995 ).
He stood as Conservative parliamentary candidate twice unsuccessfully, in the 1918 General Election for North East Derbyshire and in 1922 for West Derbyshire, before gaining the latter seat in 1923, holding it until succeeding to his father's peerage and entering the House of Lords in 1938.
A similar body for the Conservative Party is the 1922 Committee.
James Edward, Baron Hanson ( born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 20 January 1922 – 1 November 2004 ) was an English Conservative industrialist who built his businesses through the process of leveraged buyouts through Hanson plc.
In 1922, he was appointed Secretary for Scotland in Andrew Bonar Law's Conservative government, holding the post until 1924, the last year under the premiership of Stanley Baldwin.
In British politics, the 1922 Committee is a committee of Conservative Members of Parliament.
The 1922 Committee has an 18-member executive committee, the chairman of which must oversee any election of a new party leader, or any vote of confidence in respect of the current one ; such a vote can be triggered by 15 percent of Conservative MPs writing a letter to the chairman asking for such a vote.

1922 and backbenchers
With both backbenchers and frontbenchers able to attend meetings, the 1922 Committee now encompasses all sitting Conservative members of the House of Commons, although frontbench members attend by invitation and cannot participate in elections and is similar to the Parliamentary Labour Party.
At an earlier meeting before Parliament broke up for the summer, and more famously at the Carlton Club meeting in October 1922, Birkenhead's hectoring of the junior ministers and backbenchers was one of the factors leading to the withdrawal of support from the Coalition.
Neil Parish was elected by Conservative backbenchers as Chairman of the 1922 Backbench Environment Policy Committee on Wednesday 20 July 2010.
Legge-Bourke was prominent as a chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers.

1922 and against
In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.
Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.
Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.
John Barrymore's long-running 1922 performance in New York, directed by Thomas Hopkins, " broke new ground in its Freudian approach to character ", in keeping with the post-World War I rebellion against everything Victorian.
Many of the IRA rank-and-file were against the Treaty and in January – June 1922, their discontent developed into open defiance of the elected civilian Provisional government of Ireland.
Gandhi always fought against " communalism ," which pitted Muslims against Hindus in politics, but he could not reverse the rapid growth of communalism after 1922.
On 16 April 1922, Germany and the Soviet Union entered the Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which they renounced territorial and financial claims against each other.
In 1922, faced with the decision to join the Union of South Africa as a fifth province or accept nearly full internal self-autonomy, the white electorate cast their votes against South African integration.
In the Treaty of Rapallo, concluded in April 1922, Germany accepted the Treaty's nullification, and the two powers agreed to abandon all war-related territorial and financial claims against each other.
" On September 16, 1922, Minnesota Congressman Oscar E. Keller brought charges of impeachment against Daugherty.
The British military force was the primary obstacle against the Ikhwan between 1922 – 1924, and was also utilized to help emir Abdullah with the suppression of local rebellions at Kura and later by Sultan Adwan, in 1921 and 1923 respectively.
During the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ), most of the IRA units in Cork sided against the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
In 1922, young Tucker joined the Lincoln Park, Michigan police department ( against the pleas of his mother ), his interest stirred by his desire to drive and ride the fast, high-performance police cars and motorcycles.
Although he actually disagreed with the use of the death penalty in principle, in October 1922 he enacted a Public Safety Bill, which allowed for the execution of anyone who was captured bearing arms against the state or aiding armed attacks on state forces.
As chairman of the Public Service Commission in 1922, Long won a lawsuit against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company for unfair rate increases, resulting in cash refunds of $ 440, 000 to 80, 000 overcharged customers.
Also relevant, were the Hague Draft Rules of Air Warfare of 1922 – 1923, which state " air bombardment is legitimate only when is directed against a military objective.
One night in February 1922, Bow awoke to a butcher knife held against her throat by her mother.
In 1922, William Blizzard, a leader of striking coal miners, was charged with treason and murder for engaging in warfare against state and federal troops in Mingo and Logan counties.
He then remained in office until January 1922 when, against his wishes, the Dáil voted to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
After a year of agony between 1921 and 1922, she learned that Cournos had claimed to be against marriage only to test her devotion, and she broke off with him.
It was nominally prohibited by section 16 of the Schedule to the Irish Free State ( Agreement ) Act 1922 from making any law which directly or indirectly discriminated against a religion, although this provision had little effect.
At independence from the UK in 1922, the Offences against the Person Act 1861 remained in force, maintaining all abortions to be illegal and subject to punishment.

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