Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood at the bar of Old Bailey to be sentenced for forgery, to wit: Swindling nearly $10,000,000 from the British public by borrowing money on forged municipal bonds...
Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...
...manner in which they assumed the control of Eastern Samoa. . . . No threats, no bad names. . . . Everything goes on serenely. . . . So it should. "The Mau of American Samoa is jubilant over the turn of affairs. Headquarters for the Mau have been built. At the opening ceremony the Governor [Captain Graham] attended and presented the Mau with a flag." Embarrassed by the situation in Western Samoa was Britain's Labor Government last week. Three courses seemed open for the solution of this latest Empire problem: 1) Western Samoa could remain a New Zealand mandate. 2) Western Samoa might be joined with Eastern...
Harsh and unkind things have been said about the U. S. rulers of Haiti, Nicaragua, the Philippines. Samoan Islanders appreciate Captain Stephen Victor Graham, U. S. Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced...
Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...