Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt-Although Captain Anthony Eden, the youngest (39) British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville (36), in 1851, was suffering from an attack of chicken pox last week, just before he went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London...
...bed at a Norwalk, Conn., hospital lay 71-year-old Chairman Harry E. Byram of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, whose fourth marriage to a 40-year-old divorcee had been hastily postponed. Mumbled he through heavy bandages: "I was sitting in my bedroom when my son-in-law walked in and said: 'I have a wedding present for you.' . . . I closed my eyes . . . felt something cold being pressed against my left temple. . . . Opening my eyes I saw that it was actually a revolver. . . . I felt the bullet plow into my head." In another bed...
...Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring. In July, weakened by kidney trouble, the 64-year-old Secretary took to his bed never to rise again...
...compartment, three double rooms, all on one level. Advance, however, is a "duplex" car with two levels. It has 16 rooms, nine on the floor level, seven more reached individually by three steps from the corridor at the side. Each has a transverse sofa which converts into a bed. Six of the downstairs rooms have partitions which slide back, converting them into three double rooms. With airconditioning, indirect lighting, individual toilets, folding armrests, folding tables, the new cars are the most comfortable Pullman has yet produced...
...gravest charge against his hero. After devoting twelve pages to the evidence as to how Bligh received news of his arrest, the biographer says sadly, "We can only repeat our reasoned conclusion that in the time of crisis, he funked the issue, and hid under or behind a bed...