Word: grantham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Buddha." Hong Kong itself, for more than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure's success: the colony's eleventh annual exhibition of local manufactures. Hong Kong expected trade delegations from all over...
Married. Captain John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, 26, British army officer and commoner, who, as 34th hereditary Queen's Champion, led Elizabeth II's coronation procession last June; and Susan Cicely Fane, 20, dark-haired debutante daughter of a Royal Navy lieutenant; near Grantham, England...
Democrat v. Democrat. Unity is no more evident on the Democratic side. U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez, who is often described as affable, is anything but that toward his running mate, Everett Grantham, nominee for governor. Their feud dates back more than a decade to the occasion on which Grantham, then a U.S. attorney, prosecuted some of Chavez' relatives in a WPA political-influence case. In last spring's primary, Chavez ran one of his own men against Grantham, without success. (Chavez managed to win his own primary over a state senator named "Diamond Tooth" Miller...
Hong Kong's wealthy British merchants have always insisted that trade transcends politics. "We are just simple traders who want to get on with our daily round," said Governor Sir Alexander Grantham after the Communists captured China. Hong Kong got on so well with its daily round that in 1950 it did a record $400 million worth of business with Red China. It transshipped to China increasing quantities of raw rubber from Malaya, as well as gasoline, steel and other strategic materials from the West...