Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really have no qualifications as an Ambassador. I remember when I came over here many years ago ... we were asked to tea at Buckingham Palace and wanted to be very correct. I remember getting a tall hat-the first I had ever worn-and a tail coat. We presented ourselves. But everybody wore a straw hat and a short coat...
King George ordered 20 tons of Buckingham Palace's railings and gates removed for conversion into armaments; promoted the Duke of Gloucester twice in one day, from air vice marshal to air marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school...
...Buckingham Palace the Queen opened a letter addressed to "Her Majesty the Queen Personally." She read...
...first string fullbacks of last year's Freshman sqquad, Olie Taylor and Bob Harbison, are counted on to support Penson around the nets; while Sophomore Thayer Drake, Eli Berman, and "Bucky" Buckingham may break into the offensive line...
...visiting nurses, the Berry Schools (for needy boys & girls) in the hills of Georgia. She liked to travel. The year after her son went to live at the White House, when she was 79, Mrs. Roosevelt made another trip abroad. In London she took tea with Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. They talked about their sons. Later the King and Queen of England came to visit her at Hyde Park...