Word: haig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Physicians who attended Marshal Foch said that he had contracted pneumonia walking in a chill London drizzle behind the body of Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
...Haig Gregory Abdian '30, of Arlington is the winner of the New York Times Current Events Contest which was held on February 15. The announcement was made public yesterday by Dr. J. F. Sly Ph.D. '26 of the Department of Government, who had charge of the examination at Harvard...
...LADY HAIG will be most grateful if anyone POSSESSING LETTERS from her LATE HUSBAND or with PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of INCIDENTS in his LIFE, particularly in his earlier years, which may contain matter of historical or personal interest, will send to her such letters or send her brief descriptive statements of such incidents. Communications should be addressed to her personally at Bemersyde, St. Boswells, Scotland. Letters and statements are required to furnish material for the official life of the Field-Marshal which will be written at some future time. All letters will be carefully preserved and copied and the originals returned...
Soon buglers sounded the calls requested by the Archbishop; but most touching of all was the playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...