Word: haig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Industry Adviser Major Desmond John Falkiner Morton, broad-shouldered, black-mustached, was A.D.C. to Field Marshal Earl Haig during World War I, and since 1936 Director in the Department of Overseas Trade, where he built up what amounted to an economic secret service. Much of the data on the terrific secret strides Germany was making in war preparations with which Mr. Winston Churchill M. P. used to startle the House of Commons from time to time reputedly came from Major Morton, whose home is a cottage near Churchill's Westerham Manor...
...Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean Government League is that the cry of "Hagueism" has been raised so often that Jersey voters are getting tired of it. Tired...
Last week two undergraduates, Robert Murray Haig Jr., son of a Columbia University professor, and Mortimer Dickinson Wright, son of a Centerbrook (Conn.) manufacturer, brought out the Princeton Sunday News...
...eight-page tabloid, printed on standard newsprint, the Sunday News carried stories with a campus angle, church notices, two pages of sports, a page of pictures, no national or foreign news. Proprietors Haig & Wright put up $1,000 of their own money to get it started. Both juniors, they will give the Sunday News away free for the rest of the academic year (nine issues in all), hope next year to clear $75 a week...
...blood-soaked snow and frozen muck of the plain south of Viipuri, Finland's Verdun, a sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia...