Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These tidings so distressed Prime Minister MacDonald in Scotland last week that he broke off his vacation at Lossie-mouth and flew 540 mi. to London, alighting at dawn to hurry to the Foreign Office. After all it was the MacDonald Government which withdrew the British mandate over Irak last...
Officially the Irak Government blamed the crisis not on Rebel Yaku but on the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun, who was deported last week with his father and brother. At once the British Government offered these exiles asylum on the Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F...
Died. Alan Francis Winslow, 37, one-handed assistant chief of Pan American Airways' foreign department, first U.S. aviator to bring down a German plane in the War; when he fell from a third-floor hotel window; in Ottawa.
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings, 1-6, 11-9...
A good hater, Butler never hesitates to call names or mention them. There was little love lost between himself and former Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. Once when the Secretary was inspecting Quantico, which Butler took pride in believing was the "finest post in the U. S.," Adams...