Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark, dashing, Mayfairy M.P. Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid spent the first year of the war shepherding refugee British children between Doris Duke Cromwell's New Jersey, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Hawaiian estates. Last autumn, after criticism in his constituency got pretty hot, he went home. Last week, he filed suit in London High Court to have the $20,000 a year he gets from the wife he divorced for adultery in 1939 upped to an annual...
...Addis Ababa, the Italian commander, the Duke of Aosta, left behind a note to the British commanders, General Wavell and Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cunningham, a remarkable but pathetic document of defeat...
...Royal Highness, the Duke of Aosta, wishes to express his appreciation of the initiative taken by General Wavell and General Cunningham regarding the protection of the women and children of Addis Ababa, thereby demonstrating that strong bonds of humanity and race still exist between our nations...
Willcox heads the returning sailors, but Dave Noyes, Nichols, and Johnny Page are all talented skippers who will probably see considerable competition. Frank Cunningham, Arthur Besse, Bob Sherwood, Dave Prince, Ted McNitt, and Dick Rouse are all slated to see action at one time or another...
...whole British Fleet was swinging into action. Admiral Cunningham ordered fire switched to the next in line. This was the Zara, sister to Fiume. Again the first salvo struck fire. The Pola, another sister of Fiume and Zara, was engaged. At one stage both Pola and Zara hung white sheets over their sides to indicate surrender. Barham blew the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberti (1,729 tons, 4.7-in. guns) and the Maestrale (1,449 tons, 4.7-in. guns) to bits as they tried to duck into smoke screens...