Word: british
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII as a "clear testimony of the British people in support of Christian marriage and Christian moral ideals...
Died. Henry Bucknall Betterton, ist Baron Rushcliffe, 77, longtime British civil servant, three times Minister of Labor between 1923 and 1934; near Salford, England...
...free" markets of the world, the British pound, which was devalued to $2.80 last September, was being unofficially devalued still further. The pound was selling for $2.47 in New York City, was off 6% from its pegged price in Paris, 11% in Brussels...
...Stafford Cripps, who thought the British government had devalued the pound to rock bottom, brushed off the cheap pounds as insignificant. But exporters estimated that $60 million a year are being lost by Britain by use of the cheap pounds to pay for British exports. Britain had hoped to plug such leaks when she devalued in the first place...
...fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...