Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Earl of Birkenhead, "The Galloper," when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin's break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic recklessness that British agents had been working for some years to undermine the position of Comrade Trotsky in Russia. "But, dash it all, they don't seem to be able to do anything...
Queensway has cost nearly $40,000,000 and taken nine years to build. Curiosity among Britons to see its insides has been phenomenal. They have bought over $35,000 worth of tickets entitling them to preview peeks. This peek-money has gone to hospitals in Liverpool and Birkenhead, famed cities which face each other across the River Mersey and have now been connected by glamorous Queensway...
...Queensway has in fact been cut in sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging...
Lady Eleanor Smith, a woman not yet twenty-five years of age, is the daughter of the late Earl of Birkenhead. She is a woman of great beauty and is popular in English society. Her world is not limited to the narrow circles of sedate Mayfair. She has extensive knowledge of the circus, the theater, the world of sport, and of the great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book...
...rest of Europe in Boy Scouts, got the Jamboree for that reason. Of the 380 U. S. Scouts in Hungary last week most traveled on their earnings & savings, some at their parents' expense, none on Scout funds. Greatest of Scout Jamborees was the Third at Arrowe Park, near Birkenhead, England in 1929. To that boomtime Jamboree went 1,300 U. S. Scouts and a total of more than 50,000 to make "the greatest gathering of boys of which there is any record...