Word: garters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty Throne symbolized the King. Upon the Dais in front of it, slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...
...flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school to pay for lessons, became the 15th U. S. woman to get a transport license. For her able 17,000-mi. solo flight around South America last year, in which she "lost nothing-not even a garter," she received a national trophy from the Ligue Inter-Rationale des Aviateurs. Few months ago she became the first woman to win the coveted Scheduled Air Transport rating of the Bureau of Air Commerce...
That British peace dove, elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, Nobel Peace Prizeman and co-author of the Locarno Peace Pact (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925): "If Germany will not be a member of the family, if instead of seeking to negotiate she intends to exert her Will, she will find this country in her path again, and with this country the great free commonwealths [dominions] that cluster around it. And she will have met a force that once again will be her master...
...been considered a sincere friend of France, sincerely appalled by Nazidom. In London, as well as in Paris last week, an unflattering impression prevailed that Sir John saw his mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order of the Garter. Few Englishmen and no Frenchman or Italian believed him when he told the French and Italian Ambassadors in London that he could not find time to confer with Premier Flandin and II Duce before going to Berlin "because of engagements...
Above, the Locarno signatories. Both dead today, French & German Pollyannas M. Aristide Briand (A) and Dr. Gustaf Stresemann (B) received the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Britain's Austen Chamberlain (C) whom George V rewarded with the Garter. Pessimist Mussolini, who received nothing, was among the original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then...