Word: bower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the intrinsic merits of this speech, its effect in Britain will be heavily influenced by the reputation of the speaker. He was huge, hulking Commander Robert Tatton Bower, 48, onetime British Navy boxing champion and World War I submarine officer, whose opinions are more questionable than his fluency. In 1938, when Polish-descended, English-born Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite M.P., was attacking the Government's policy on the Spanish War, Commander Bower suddenly rose and yelled: "Go back to Poland!" Small, sinewy Emanuel Shinwell walked across the House of Commons and smacked Commander Bower so hard...
...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...
Edwin Heister will lead the Lord Jeffs to the fray, with Art Palmer, John Bower, Bob Pfeifer, Jim Alexander, Bob Izant, Barold Still, Lee Pattison, and Bill Traver filling the ranks of the home forces...
Whether $10,000,000,000 revenue was possible without such a change remained to be seen. Perhaps it was. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Holman Jones, the big, cold-eyed right bower of Franklin Roosevelt, announced last week that estimates of the nation's (not the Government's) income in October were $6,671,000,000. This was the highest monthly income for the U. S. since May 1930. If good business continues, it will carry national income to about $74,000,000,000 for 1940, compared to $70,000,000,000 in 1939. Since personal and corporate income...
...Children of Socrates." Bravely over the sandbagged Parthenon last week, as November ended and bitter winter began, flew the blue & white flag of Greece. And bravely through the world, Minister of National Security Constantine Maniadakis, right bower of Premier General John Metaxas, appealed for aid in the struggle to come. Said he: "We address ourselves particularly to the great, strong, liberal union of the United States of America. We pay no attention to the enemy's material strength, and neither do we dare pay attention regarding the intentions of other probable enemies [Germany] . . . the children of Socrates, Plato...