Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister George Howard Ferguson of Ontario, under whom that province went "wet" last year (TIME, July 4) announced, last week, a new honor for Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, famed Canadian banker-industrialist and chairman of the Imperial Canadian Munitions Board throughout...
...Nationalist convictions, he went before Parliament with the following program: 1) Rejection of the treaty of "alliance" in its present form; 2) Maintenance in the Sudan of Egyptian rights which are now being quietly usurped by Britain; 3) Determination to "admit of no encroachment upon the independence, honor, or sovereignty of Egypt...
...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come...
...memory of his son Lee Wade II '14, who was keenly interested in the Boylston prizes when in college. The three Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30, are among the oldest prizes in the University. They were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston '35 in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston...