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Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...
...crown in a commission" (i. e. establish a Council of State to act for George V as was done during his 1928-29 illness), the nation and the world watched ever more intently Their Majesties' eldest son. At Sandringham the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey, handed the order establishing the Council of State to Lord Dawson of Penn. The great doctor, bending over the King's bed, supported the right hand as it weakly scrawled for the last time "George...
...which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine Jackson, Admiral Baron Wester Wemyss, Admiral Sir Charles Madden, Lt. Col. Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Eric Geddes,* Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith and Baron Brad bury of Winsford. As a stirring climax to the induction of the Twelve, there was administered to them this Knightly Oath: "You shall honor God above all things ; you shall be steadfast in the faith of Christ. You shall love...
...from being that. In all the "war books" I have read, ranging from Ian Hay through Donald Hankey to Ambassador Page, I have come across none that possessed the inherent power and strength and fascination of this strange tale. Dr. Ossendowski, a Polish professor formerly holding an important official scientific position in Russia, was caught by the Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving...
...against the typhus and cholera which is prevalent there. They will, like the party which sailed last month, work under the direction of Professor Richard P. Strong, of the Medical School. Six men from the University Medical School are in the group: H. A. Bunker, Jr., 4M.; D. C. Hankey 4M.; J. H. McGuire 4M.; W. C. Sheffield 1M.; Dr. J. J. Stack M.D. '10; and C. B. Spruit 4M. The party will sail from New York next week, and should join their colleagues in Servia early in July. The party which sailed last month has not been heard from...