Word: halifax
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...Earl of Halifax was planning a final trip through the country he knows better than any other foreign diplomat, and more widely than most U.S. citizens. A speaking tour in Nebraska and Kansas would bring the total of states he has visited...
...When Halifax was sent to Washington in the early days of 1941, he accepted a burden which Winston Churchill called "as momentous as any that the monarchy has entrusted to an Englishman in the lifetime of any of us." Through the trying years of the isolationist debate and the greatest war coalition in history, he won the resounding respect of the U.S. for himself and for his country...
...Halifax, Bricklayer Arthur Dominic Anderson, 57, who earns $1.15 an hour for a 44-hour week, had a different explanation: "I am perfectly satisfied with my job. ... I would rather argue . . . with the bosses than go on strike...
...Earl of Halifax, towering, impenetrably well-mannered British Ambassador to the U.S., denied that he was being recalled, but knew just what he would do when he was. Said the well-heeled Lord of Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire: "I'm going to become a farmer...
...London New Statesman easily tops the world. Last week she wrote carols that British Members of Parliament and American Congressmen might suitably sing to each other. After the British sang their thanks for "a gift with strings a-dangling," the Americans were to reply with "Good Lord Halifax" (to the tune of Good-King Wenceslas...