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...Ministry of Shipping, to succeed Sir John Gilmour, who died last fortnight, went strapping, ambitious Robert Spear Hudson, a blunt ex-diplomat who as Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade was one of the junior ministers who revolted against Neville Chamberlain after Munich. After Chamberlain warned the rebels to play ball, Hudson played ball. Last summer he took credit for Behind-the-Scenes-Man Sir Horace Wilson's abortive plan to offer Germany credits and access to world markets in exchange for peace. Said the Spectator last week: "His appointment . . . over the head of Sir Arthur Salter, whose...
Died. Sir John Gilmour, 63, Minister of Shipping in the Chamberlain Cabinet; of heart disease brought on by worry and overwork; in London...
During the late 1920s a former iron molder, garage grease boy, machinist and farm hand named Robert Gilmour Le-Tourneau was making a modest living around Stockton, Calif., leveling farm lands and digging excavations with some machinery he had put together. One night he attended a meeting of the Young People's Mission in Stockton. Full of inspiration, he went home to his drafting board, in no time had turned out a design for a power control unit which would co-ordinate the functions of his digging machine...
Charles B. Marshall, of El Paso, Tex., as Instructor in, Government; Darcy Gilmour, of Sydney, Australia, as Research Fellow in Biology; Frederick T. Wolf, of Durham, N. C., as Research Fellow in Biology; Edwin B. Astwood, of Hamilton, Bermuda, as Research Fellow in Biology; Carlos Munoz, of Santiago, Professor of Agricultural Botany and Silviculture of the School of Agronomy, University of Chile, as Research Fellow in Botany, Arnold Arboretum...
...Lexington. Ky.. President Gilmour Nunn of American Broadcasting Co. revealed that, at a Kentucky Derby party, Elliott Roosevelt had challenged a stranger to a fist fight for remarks that "besmirched the President's name...