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...insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...
During World War II Leonard Cheshire was a first-class fighting man. In 1943, after completing a tour of operations in Halifax bombers, he became the youngest group captain (equals U.S. colonel) in the R.A.F. He had himself demoted to wing commander so that he could take over command of the famed 617 Squadron, nicknamed "The Dam-Busters." where he developed a new low-level technique of marking targets. After more than 100 missions, he won Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross...
...million in foreign trade. Court delays stalled an effort to enforce the injunction by arresting I.L.A. leaders for contempt. I.L.A. President William Bradley, a longtime tugboat captain, called out the I.L.A.'s tugboat locals. Some liners docked clumsily on their own power. The Queen Mary went to Halifax. I.L.A. locals in other ports, gorged with diverted ships, stalled off Bradley's appeal that they join his strike...
...Eden resigned from the Foreign Office in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policies of appeasement, and was replaced by Lord Halifax. Chamberlain picked Butler as Under Secretary. With the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
...propeller shaft, was absorbed by a pumplike water brake. Since the "fire" in its reactor used no air, it could have been steaming hundreds of feet under the surface of the sea. If the test had been run with the real Nautilus, she could have cruised submerged from Halifax to Liverpool (2,514 nautical miles) in 96 hours. Average speed (probably conservatively stated): 26 knots...