Word: evesham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways. The Connecticut officials, somewhat embarrassed, informed Captain Plugge that the Merritt Parkway reflectors were copies of those in use on the road from Evesham to Worcester, England...
Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Monsell of Evesham, rose casually one day last week in the House of Commons and fired what sounded like the starting gun of a gigantic world naval race. Ostensibly he was merely asking the Commons to vote an additional $51,500,000 for 1936 naval expenditures to supplement the $345,000,000 already provided in the Budget. Sobering naval news went with the request...
...Dumbleton Hall in Evesham, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Monsell forgot happily all about the London Naval Conference which is doubly deadlocked (TIME, Dec. 30). Monsell's second daughter is learning Tibetan and had many interesting things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired...
Grey and graceful little U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis nominated British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare for President of the Conference, and for Vice President the First Lord of the British Admiralty, new Viscount Monsell of Evesham (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell). These nominations were adopted by acclaim. At the time President ''Flying Sam" Hoare was on his way to wintersport in Switzerland...