Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
...years. More amiable than he appears when professionally engaged, Chabot, like most hockey players, has a summer job, as ice cream salesman. His Black Hawks salary is $4,500. When on tour with the team, he wears grey spats, plays Casino with enthusiasm. In Chicago, he lives at the Croydon Hotel with his wife and two children...
Lord Horder of Ashford, Physician to the Prince of Wales and to Prime Minister MacDonald, received a call so urgent that he canceled a radio talk, sped out to Croydon just in time to catch the night plane across the Channel. Next morning, close on the heels of his colleague, Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's own doctor, roared away from London in a chartered plane. At a bedside in Paris Britain's royal physicians met, consulted, pronounced Mrs. Margaret Shenberg Mayer, wife of U. S. Cinemagnate Louis Burt Mayer, ill of double pneumonia...
...Croydon, England, a befogged French freight plane struck a wireless mast, skimmed housetops, wrecked two garages, killed the pilot and mechanic...
From a plane at Croydon stepped blond, monocled General Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Commissioner for Disarmament Questions, to talk with Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. General von Ribbentrop served as a lieutenant of Hussars during the War, speaks English and French perfectly, has spent four years in the U. S. and Canada and is married to the daughter of the German Champagne Maker Henkell. General von Ribbentrop had a three-power air limitation scheme to lay before the British Government. Nothing came...