Word: generalships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served at Sedan, at the Siege of Paris, and-great moment in his life-at the proclamation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Followed 40 years of peace. Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would...
...neared their May high of $72 (remarkable because it bettered by 25? the 1930 high) the reason was that the accumulated reserves of the British company were to be capitalized. Had Mr. Woolworth lived until last week, nothing could have pleased him more than this timely reward of his generalship...
...others. In the box with Their Majesties sat Lady May Cambridge (mentioned as George V's candidate for the hand of Edward of Wales) with her mother Princess Alice of Albany and her father the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary and just retired from his Governor Generalship of the Union of South Africa...
...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
...King, on recommendation of R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, offered the Governor Generalship of that Dominion to the Duke of Abercorn, but the Duke felt he should remain in Ulster to complete his second term of office and therefore could not see his way to accept this appointment...