Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan...
...week what London papers called the most successfully secret probe ever made within the British Civil Service. It came as a "complete surprise" to even the top-flight officials of the Air Ministry when one night Squire Baldwin dismissed the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry, Sir Christopher Llewellyn Bullock...
...ministry-such as Sir Warren Fisher at the Treasury or Sir Robert Vansittart at the Foreign Office-is always rated as of finer moral fibre, higher intelligence and greater ability than the political transients who serve as His Majesty's Ministers, the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister Baldwin, after ordering Sir Christopher dismissed, made a ringing public announcement. "I am glad to observe," cried John...
...offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged. In reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...Eric was to be swapped for a chairmanship for Sir Christopher. This sort of thing is often tolerated in cases where the swapper is an ordinary politician; but, the report released by the Prime Minister declared: "We think the whole course of proceedings shows, on the part of Bullock, a lack of that instinct and perception from which is derived a sure guide by which the conduct of Civil Servants should be regulated...