Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank high enough to decide anything important. Chief of the British Naval Staff is Admiral Sir Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield. He stayed at home last week. Britain's Army had last week a new Chief of the Imperial General Staff in handsome, close-mouthed General Sir Cyril John Deverell, who lately succeeded Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. So far as the public knew, General Deverell took no part in the conference. Neither did Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Emile Van Den Berghe of Belgium, nor Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin of France...
Died. Grand Duchess Feodorovna, 59, wife of Grand Duke Cyril-Vladimirovich. self-proclaimed Emperor of all the Russias; of an apoplectic stroke; in Munich...
Having heard the jury's verdict of guilty, Justice Sir Cyril Atkinson turned to the fallen financiers and said: "You were in great positions. Great positions carry great responsibilities. I should be failing in my duty if I did not punish you." Thereupon he sentenced Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson to one year of imprisonment without hard labor. That was the same sentence passed upon mighty Lord Kylsant in 1931 in the same court house for the same offence in connection with a scandalous Royal Mail Steam Packet prospectus. The third pepper man received nine months. All appealed...
...other crack Chrysler executives involved in the conspiracy charges were considered "unreliable witnesses," the letters of one being "thoroughly dishonest." Though Mr. Chrysler "admitted far more than enough" to indicate full knowledge of the deal, he was cleared of any direct part in it. But Sir Cyril shook his bewigged head. "Mr. Chrysler is said to be one of the foremost industrialists in America," he declared. "Some of his answers show that his standard of business morality is lamentably low. . . . The less said about honor in this case the better...
...long did it take Sir Cyril to unburden himself on Chrysler ethics that final awards were not announced until next day. Chrysler Corp. and the five defendant executives, including Mr. Chrysler and Mr. Hutchinson, were ordered to pay the plaintiffs a total of $270,000, plus costs of perhaps another...