Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Mrs. Tate: "Does the Home Secretary consider it was a suitable selection on the part of the Children's Overseas Reception Board to choose as their representative a member of this House [Captain Cunningham-Reid] whose division record is under 5% [i. e., who stays away from Commons sessions nine-tenths of the time], whose association [constituents] has passed a vote of censure on him, and who also happens to be a reserve officer...
...days earlier Mrs. Tate was silenced by repeated cries of "Order! Order!" when she attempted to make a scandal out of the fact that three British M. P.s recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife whom he divorced for adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have...
...House of Commons, irate Mrs. Tate implied that His Majesty's Government should not have let these three M. P.s go overseas during the present crisis, and she did not feel any better when it came out that Captain Cunningham-Reid announced as his reason for asking an exit permit that he was going to handle Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell's refugee British tots...
...this was good Sunday-feature stuff on an island where most people expect to be bombed any minute. The Daily Express headlined the landing in Halifax of Captain Cunningham-Reid: "M. P. ARRIVES WITH 2,000 CHILDREN." In Montreal, the best crack that M. P. Cunningham-Reid could think of was: "That woman again...
...Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander in Chief of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, these casualty admissions were welcome news, for his view and version of the Ionian Sea encounter differed widely from the Italian. To make a sweep along the Italian south coast at a moment when the Italians might suppose him preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural...