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Word: aberdonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the Government thought they had found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Imperial's Scot | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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