Word: highland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expeditions against the Upper Mohmands poured out of Peshawar, farthest north of the hill posts. Against the few hundred rifles of the Haji's son. Britain moved into action the white-turbaned Pathans and Sikhs of the Peshawar and Nowshera Brigades, the tough, kilted Scots of the Highland Light Infantry, to a total of 15.000 men. as well as planes, mountain artillery, light tanks. Commanding was a hardened Scot of a professional British Army family. Brig.-General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, advised by Acting Chief of Staff Major-General Eric de Burgh and Director of Military Operations and Intelligence Brig...
...White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before going on to West Point to attend the graduation exercises at the U. S. Military Academy. By the time he returns to Washington the Shrine convention will...
...Harvester way- as an office boy. Climbing slowly to an executive job in Harvester's European division, he spent 17 years in Brussels, was called home in 1931. Cool, steady, suspicious of the Press like all crack Harvester officials, he lives quietly with his wife and son in Highland Park outside Chicago, seldom entertains...
Designer of American Houses' prefabricated unit is also its board chairman. Architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. had already achieved fashionable success as a designer of rich men's homes when he built his first prefabricated house for Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. at Hazelton, Pa. in 1932. When Depression pointed up the need for low-cost housing, he persuaded some of his Princeton classmates to help him set up a company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect...
...HIGHLAND NIGHT-Neil M'. Gunn- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of the eviction of the Highlanders from their glens in the early 19th Century...