Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...
...from politics, burning his ambition to become Prime Minister. The Galloper took the woolsack (a large red cloth cushion stuffed with wool), sat on it as a Lord Chancellor must, rested his foot on it now and then as a Lord Chancellor must not. In 1919 he became Baron Birkenhead, in 1921 accepted a Viscountcy commemorating his wife's maiden name (Furneaux), and in 1922 was created Earl of Birkenhead with an arrogant-humorous armorial motto of his own devising Faber Meae Fortunae: "[I'm] the Smith of my own Fortune...
Arbiter & Wit. At about this time Lord Birkenhead delivered his memorable knife thrust at the late Viscount Younger of Leckie (then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy...
Master of India & Tycoon. To the great grief of political rivals, who had thought Lord Birkenhead would quietly retire like most Lord Chancellors when his term expired, he rushed back to stumping for the Conservative Party. Grateful for such dynamic aid, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, lazy, muddling, made him Secretary of State for India in the last Conservative Cabinet (TIME...
Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned...