Word: buller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True enough, said Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, leading off for the government, the Devlin commission had found no reliable evidence that a "massacre" was about to take place. But then, said the Attorney General, the Colonial Secretary, in explaining to the House what had gone on in Nyasaland, had used the word "massacre" only once. "Apparently," snorted Labor's Colonial Expert James Callaghan, "if the Right Honorable Gentleman says it once, we are not to take him seriously...
When not in college, Kay (as he is called at Harvard) lives in London's Eaton Square with his mother, the former Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
During the three weeks of Adams' trial, as the eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world focused in fascination on the pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased...
...revenue people, determined to get their man, dug up an 1842 tax law which says that six months means six lunar months. This would have defeated Wilkie but Judge Sir Terence Norbert Donovan ruled the 1842 law out of date. Britain's Solicitor General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, for the Inland Revenue Commissioners, then argued that an old general rule of law states that fractions of days shall be treated as whole days. Thus, both June 2 and Dec. 2 counted as full days, and, for their purposes, Wilkie had been in England altogether 184 days. The judge nipped...
...Hayworth, who journeyed to Gstaad, Switzerland, with her newborn daughter, Princess Yasmin. There she and her husband, Prince Aly Khan, enjoyed a family reunion with her five-year-old daughter Rebecca (by her second husband, Cinemactor Orson Welles), and his two sons by a previous marriage (to Joan Yarde-Buller), Karim, 13, and Amyon...