Word: beresford
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...Beresford Richards, the loud-mouthed CCFer who was once suspended from his party for urging a CCF coalition with other left-wing parties, rose in the Manitoba Legislature to denounce U.S. troops stationed in Canada. "Canada," said he, "is being sucked into United States' . . . militarism and is in grave danger of losing her sovereignty." A U.S. plane, he added, had been stunting only 60 feet over houses in The Pas, Man., and "the citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave...
...McTurk" was George Charles Beresford (died 1938); "Beetle," Kipling himself (died...
Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam...
Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
Heavily engraved invitations sent out by Lady Decies (formerly Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia) sent the British Library of Information bustling about over a point of etiquette. Said the invitation: "Lady Elizabeth Decies (the Right Honorable Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies) requests the pleasure of your company," etc. But Lady Decies, pointed out the B.L.I., is merely wife of a privy councillor of the lowest rank of the peerage (John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies). is therefore a "Lady," but not a "Right Honorable." Nor can she call herself "Lady Elizabeth," nor "Elizabeth, Lady," titles proper only...