Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives in Jamaica's Colonial Legislature empowered Captain-General* & Governor Sir Edward Brandis Denham to declare a state of emergency if necessary. Eighty British soldiers and 400 native policemen were mobilized; 100 local militiamen, 250 special constables were called out. The British cruiser Ajax, with 550 well-armed bluejackets, rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike...
...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...
...Ajax Dope, regular first sacker of the Ibismen, who is suffering from a heavy cold incurred in last night's practice game, may not be able to start. In that case Benchley, who has never been able to get to first base, may take over the position. Another last-minute substitution that Jester, coach of Lampy, has in mind, is replacing Z. Zwoncus, Jr., son of Z. Zwoncus, Sr., former catching great for the funnymen, with Bobby Bunker at short. Bunker, who makes a hit anywhere, is anxiously awaiting his chance, it is said...
...Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk...
...last week went word that new King Farouk planned to take train to Venice, there board the Italian liner Victoria for Alexandria. The British Foreign Office buzzed excitedly. Presently a new itinerary was announced: train to Marseille, the British liner Viceroy of India to Alexandria, and H. M. S. Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk to Buckingham Palace for a long...