Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aired the issue of British tariffs in a pointed debate between Baron Arnold, free trade Labor peer, and the Earl Stanhope, Conservative champion of the National Government...
Just as unanswerably the Earl Stanhope replied that Britain's tariff policy, adopted in 1931, reduced the Kingdom's adverse merchandise trade balance ?120,000,000 last year. As to bargaining tariffs down, said the Noble Lord, His Majesty's Government now have that job in hand...
Leprologists rejoiced to learn last week that the leprosy germ has at last and repeatedly been grown in laboratory dishes. Possible ultimate control of the scourge is therefore in sight. The men who accomplished the feat are Professor Malcolm Herman Soule, University of Michigan bacteriologist, and Professor Earl Baldwin McKinley, dean of George Washington Medical school. Both are advisers to the Leonard Wood Memorial...
...special degree of A.B. magna cum laude and with "highest honors" instead of with the usual "high honors" was awarded to Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Jr., and to Richard Poate Stebbins. Earl Newton Stilson received a magna as of the class of 1931, and Abraham Lincoln Gordon a summa as of the class...
...English derby at Epsom Downs was founded by the racing Earls of Derby 153 years ago to amuse a boisterous party of dinner guests. Only twice in all those years did their house win it. The twelfth earl won in 1787. Roseate, rotund Edward George Villiers Stanley, the present Lord Derby, won it in 1924 with Sanso-vino, thereby gratifying one of his two life wishes.* Last week he surprised himself by winning it again, this time with Hyperion...