Word: fyfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with crackling descriptions of action. There is the feat of Commander Sam Dealey's Harder, which deliberately went out after the subs' greatest natural enemy, the destroyers, got five on one patrol, and came back to tell about it. There is an account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom by one of her own torpedoes...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, 51, a Scotsman who became one of Britain's famous barristers in his career, King's Counsel at 33. then Solicitor General and Attorney General -Home Secretary and also Minister for Welsh Affairs (a new post created by Churchill to appease Welsh nationalists). Fyfe was a prosecutor at the Niirnberg war crime trials, has a special interest in transport, industrial development, town & country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship...
...most impressive of the senior Tory leaders is 51-year-old Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, sometimes known as "deadpan David." A lawyer, he "took silk" when he was 33; only one man in British legal history did it at an earlier age, and that was in 1668. Attorney General in 1945, he was deputy chief prosecutor at the N¨urnberg trials...
...Maxwell Fyfe has a nervous manner, is a poor public speaker, and has little crowd appeal. But these are not insurmountable handicaps in British politics, and success in dealing with organized labor could make him the most important Tory in the land. He is a hero to many of the young Tories...
...university court (Glasgow's administrative head is known as the principal). Following a tradition dating from 1858, the students did the nominating, voting and, mixing national and university politics freely, most of the campaigning, too. Some of the candidates' names bore their political tags: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative; onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Inverchapel (Clark Kerr), Independent; Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Independent; Actress Rosamond John, Independent, and Nationalist John MacCormick, the energetic leader of the Scottish Covenant movement, which for eight years has been demanding a Home Rule Scottish Parliament for domestic affairs...