Word: corlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor Taisho). Address: Koj. Kamirokuban-cho, Tokyo...
...while Wartime commander of the U. S. S. New Orleans and St. Louis by transporting and escorting troops and supplies to Europe. He is round-faced, square-shouldered, out spoken. Virgin Islanders like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB...
Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
Europe is "a baby in its cor--rather a repulsive and fretful brat." Its whims, according to Mr. Douglas, have doomed whatever pretenisons it may ever have had. England in particular is lost: her morals and manners, government and social institutions are all presented in the cold and keenly satiric light of the author's wit, a wit which will compare not unfavorably with the most malicious in history...
...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...