Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week, there opened in Manhattan the third edition of Earl...
...Their lordships were informed by Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, that the Singapore naval base would not be "a great base for concentration," but "comparatively a minor establishment." Lord Balfour (ex-Premier A. J. Balfour), one of the two elder British statesmen (the other is ex-Premier Lord Roseberry), rose to scoff politely at Labor and Liberal opposition to the base. Said...
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
...Office announced the appointment of General Sir George Francis Milne to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff in succession to General the Earl of Cavan, retiring. The appointment is not effective until February. General Milne is Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command (military district in England) and was toward the end of the War in command of the Salonika Army...
...Chancellorship, an honorary position of great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...