Word: generalship
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Handsomely arrayed in the uniform of a Royal Hussar, the tallest of the King's tall sons received a warm greeting from Governor General Sir Isaac Isaacs, a tumultuous welcome from half a million cheering Australians. That Prince Henry, 34, is being groomed for the Governor Generalship was last week no State secret. Grand climax of the Melbourne Centennial-the one thing which last week was of interest to all the world-was the MacRobertson Trophy Race from Mildenhall to Melbourne...
With his union strengthened, its complaints well-aired and machinery in motion to deal with them, Leader Gorman had won by the strike all that Labor could reasonably have expected. Last week sympathizers reviewed with admiration his smart generalship-his impressive sealed and numbered strike orders, his effective innovation of "flying squadrons" of picketers, his strategic concentration on drawing out irreplaceable loom-fixers...
...bellicose English to write the tactical and strategic history of the Battle of Hastings (whose alternate title of "Senlac" he rejects). it is thrilling and exciting reading, even for a modern anti-war demonstrator. Harold, damned by the author for his fendal perfidy, draws his admiration for his generalship. He held the heights, and it was a hard day's work for the Norman spearmen, archers, and axemen to win the issue...
Only in Ireland could there be a king's representative like Donal Buckley. An ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live...
...cast on Jean Chiappe's honesty. No direct evidence has yet been produced, but he did know Alex Stavisky well enough to sit in his box at a theatre. Socialists yelled for his head. Premier Daladier demanded his resignation, but as a face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going to lead a riot in person...