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First under fire was Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, not for inefficiency but for efficiency. Several members feared that his new drive for tank production would take the emphasis off the building of equally needed planes. As a way out, Liberal Geoffrey Mander suggested that Beaverbrook be given a new ministry with power over all production...
This cinemadaptation of Novelist Geoffrey Household's best-selling Rogue Male is a superb thriller. Loaded with excitement, suspense and terror, it is a happy joining of a wonderfully workmanlike script by Dudley Nichols with talented direction by Fritz Lang and first-rate acting by Mr. Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett, John Carradine...
...your issue of March 24 regarding Istan-sued in mimeograph form the next day to the 55 officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire...
...have two refugees staying with me for the duration of the war, Mrs. Geoffrey Ennor and her 2½-year-old son Neil from Penzance, England. As you are no doubt aware, the maximum amount of money allowed any one person leaving that country is ?10. At my suggestion, Mrs. Ennor converted only a small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine...
...other fighting seadog moved up was Rear Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood, hero of the Battle of the Plate, where with three cruisers he licked the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Sir Henry was called to the Admiralty to replace Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake as assistant chief of staff and a member of the controlling Admiralty Board...