Книга: William Warren «Asia's Legendary Hotels: The Romance of Travel»

Asia's Legendary Hotels: The Romance of Travel

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Asia's Legendary Hotels features some of the region's most historically significant hotels, from the Taj Mahal in India to the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Railway Hotel in Hua Hin. The result is a showcase of unique establishments where the past is not only present, but celebrated-and where one can discover what it was like in the golden age of travel - when a hotel was more than merely a collection of rooms and a restaurant or two.

Издательство: "Tuttle Publishing" (2007)

ISBN: 978-0-7946-0174-4

William Warren

William Robertson Warren (October 9, 1879-December 31, 1927) was a Newfoundland lawyer, politician and judge who served as the dominion's Prime Minister from July 1923 to April 1924.

Warren was first elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1903 as a Liberal and served as Speaker of the House from 1909-1913. In 1919 he became minister of justice in the Cabinet of Sir Richard Squires. The Squires government became embroiled in a scandal over allegations of corruption and misspending of government funds and Squires resigned in protest along with three other ministers in 1923. The next year Squires was forced to resign and Warren was chosen the party's new leader and Prime Minister. His government launced a formal inquiry into the corruption charges which resulted in the arrest and conviction of Squires and several others. Warren's supporters turned against him and moved a Motion of No Confidence that defeated his government. Warren moved to the opposition benches and was formed a coalition with Tory William J. Higgins to form the new "Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party" that won the election a few weeks later making the conservative Walter Stanley Monroe the new Prime Minister.

In 1926, Warren resigned from the House of Assembly and was appointed to the colony's Supreme Court. William Warren died the next year.

External links

* [http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1919-28.htm Newfoundland in the 1920s]

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