Word: bede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Lap. The next and final stop was Port-au-Spain, capital of hilly, verdant, sun-drenched Trinidad. There the President inspected the new U.S. naval base, had tea with Governor and Lady Bede Edmund Clifford. He also picked up his personal Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, forced to stop off at Port-au-Spain on the trip to Casablanca by one of the most untimely cases of influenza in recent history...
Railroad men blasted the Seaway from every side. Their main fear: loss of profitable petroleum, coal and automobile traffic (on the assumption that a new transport medium will divert more traffic than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have...
...serially-not in the Westminster Review. Spurred on by enlightened self-interest, Chapman soon snooped so successfully that he discovered who George Eliot was. Wrote Lewes to Chapman: ". . . [Mrs. Lewes] authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of Adam Bede." Chapman's only reply seems to have been to ask if he might republish some of George Eliot's old articles in the Westminster Review. Lewes said No, wrote in his diary: "Squashed that idea...
...TREE OF LIBERTY, a best selling novel, is the basis of Hollywood's latest film on the American Revolution: 1. Adam Bede. 2. The Howards of Virginia. 3. Independence Hall. 4. Patrick Henry. 5. The Boston Tea Party...
...Charles Dundas, the departing Governor of the Bahamas, who has now been named Governor of Uganda, British African protectorate, planned to slip away from Nassau this week before the Wind sors should arrive. London dispatches said that Sir Bede Clifford, who from 1932 to 1937 was a successful and popular Governor of the Bahamas, is about to be sent back to Nassau, reportedly to assist the Duke with his work as Governor...