Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week he took no occasion to sound off one way or another on the bombings. He is the last to forget the old Sinn Fein slogan: "England's crisis is Ireland's opportunity...
Also scheduled to sail from England for the U. S. this week on the same mission is titian-haired, 40-year-old Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, confidante of the Führer and friend of half of Europe's great. Since the fall of Austria, Princess Stephanie, once the toast of Vienna, has lent her charms to advancing the Nazi cause in circles where it would do the most good...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
...brief and not very glorious annals of the Mexican War (1846-48) include certain quaintly sketchy chapters on U. S. naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton...
...path of the hurricane that swept New England last fall were, among other things, several State teachers' colleges of which Mr. Reardon has charge. To repair the damage to them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon...