Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Office officials would not allow themselves to be quoted, but made the amazing statement that they believed Sir William Joynson-Hicks had ordered the raid without the knowledge of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. They further hazarded the opinion that Sir William might have been ignorant that diplomatic immunity was being violated, and that a broth of trouble was being concocted for the Foreign Office...
...passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Since the envelope was long, crisp, important, a flunky in tight breeches and silver braid carried it gingerly to the Chamberlain, Admiral Herr von Reuber Paschwitz. More in amaze than anger, the Admiral muttered "Dummkopf! Blockhead!" ripped, discovered the letter to be signed by Major Judson Hannigan (able morale developer, training camp inspirationalist, generous cup and counsel donor to promising rookies) 104th Infantry, Boston, Mass...
Lightning Exchange. His Majesty, the newly ascended Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito, received last week the first resignation of a Cabinet during his reign (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), at 9:10 a. m. from the Imperial Chamberlain. By 11:00 a. m. newsboys were crying on the street that the new Premier was General Baron Guchi Tanaka, leader of the Seiyuka.* Thus New Japan, with her young athletic, enlightened Tenno and highspeed printing presses, kept the public waiting not over two hours for an exchange of government which in ancient days endured decorously and interminably. Japanese editors applauded the new Tenno...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...