Word: helmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since great Raymond Poincaré had already refused President Gaston Doumergue's request that he again take the helm, no candidate seemed outstanding. Chances were even that M. Tardieu might again succeed himself as Prime Minister, as he did when his first Cabinet fell (TIME, March...
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...
...week the trial board reconstructed the disaster from the evidence, acquitted Captain Brooks of all four charges. It concluded that the Fairfax was traveling at 3 knots, the Pinthis at 7½ when they collided, that nobody heard any fog signals from the Pinthis, that Captain Brooks handled his helm and engines correctly. Declared the board: "Had the master executed any other maneuver than what he did, both vessels would have been sunk and possibly all lives lost...
Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...
...square-chinned, keen-eyed lawyer began his political career in the Northwest Provincial Legislature, has steadily advanced in the Conservative Party, was at one time Minister of Justice. In 1927, with the Party politically bankrupt, Bachelor Bennett was called to a helm he has since masterfully held, putting new vim and fight into Conservatives. He lives at Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta, in austere magnificence with his sister, who idolizes and prays for him. In the lay councils of the United Church of Canada he is paramount...