Word: falkland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full name of this 0. M. S. was announced as "The Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies"; and several peers, among them Admiral Lord Jellicoe, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viscount Falkland, Major General Lord Scarbrough, Lord. Ranfurly, Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, stood sponsor for what would seem to be a most ambitious attempt at organizing the country to protect and feed itself, in case of a national emergency...
...60th birthday of King George (June 3) was celebrated throughout the realm and the Dominions beyond the seas. There was no official holiday, but by spontaneous consent flags fluttered from flagstaffs from the Falkland to the Orkney Islands, from the Beaufort Sea to Tasmania. Thousands of letters and telegrams from all parts of the world were received...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what is still more, when in 1863 Maximilian intervened in Mexico and founded there an empire, nobody has been able to tell us and I do not doubt that Colonel...