Word: homing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
...Gates Dawes, after four years in the seclusion of the U. S. Vice-Presidency, continued to create publicity for Disarmament and himself. ¶ He talked some more about why he will serve no alcoholics in his London embassy: "I never made it a practice to serve liquor in my home in the States, and see no reason to change now." Other U. S. diplomats abroad wondered what all the excitement was about. Alcoholics are never served in the American Embassy at Oslo or Copenhagen, while most of the U. S. diplomats in the Balkans are teetotalers...
...perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House or the other. Also announced last week were the customary "dissolution honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...
...died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World's Work...
...Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home she lived. He, at the time, was just overhead flying for the record with Pilot & Mrs. Martin Jensen in their Bellanca Three Musketeers. While Miss Gentry lay in the hospital and Pilot Ashcraft was at an undertaker's, the Three Musketeers flew on, on; stayed up 70½ hrs., when their...