Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening. At 6:45 the blundering Ministry of Information announced that the Duke had landed. But not until 9, more than two hours after the news hit the wires, did the Duke set foot on the red carpet which covered the very jetty from which he had left England exactly two years, nine months before...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
Died. Ethel May Dell, fiftyish, prolific author of 16 super-saccharine best-selling novels (Greatheart, The Hundredth Chance, The Lamp in the Desert, etc.); in Hertford, England...
...astrologer of World War I still living is R. H. Naylor, who predicted the war two years before it happened, said it would last approximately four years. He introduced astrology to London's press in 1930, now enjoys what is said to be the biggest private practice in England. This time Naylor, writing for the Sunday Express, was too cautious to foretell war or peace. But last week he gave his opinion of war's outcome: "It will end suddenly and for reasons no man can know or foresee. The centre of government will shift to Canada eventually...