Word: hore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking to a group of army cooking experts at England's military training ground, Aldershot, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's bachelor Secretary of State for War, said: "I hope you men will spread a love of cooking to your wives, because my own requirements in that respect are so exacting that I have never been able to find a wife to come up to that standard." Cracked a Tommy: "Join the army...
...British sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain's chief Mediterranean base. "The guns on the Strait of Gibraltar," said Mr. Hore-Belisha, "are of various calibres from 12-inch howitzers downward...
Most newsworthy feature of Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet reshuffle last May was the appointment of pudgy Leslie Hore-Belisha as Secretary of State for War. In Stanley Baldwin's Government this shrewd little Jew, as Minister of Transport, had won unprecedented publicity by his road-safety campaign, his famed orange-topped Belisha Beacons...
...point of Hore-Belisha's new appointment was obvious-his iob was to get much-needed recruits for the British Army. the ugly duckling of Britain's fighting services. With the sort of interest shown in a popular cricketer, Britishers-from black-coated civil servants in Whitehall to roisterous cockneys on Hampstead Heath -waited last week for War Secretary Hore-Belisha to reveal his program...
...easy for Britons to see how War Secretary Hore-Belisha could devise still more startling stunts. His plan proved to be merely a scheme for persuading soldiers now completing their initial seven years' service to sign up for another 14. The inducement: a life pension of 34 shillings ($8.50) a week. To 90,000 who have recently done their seven years and left the army, the War Secretary offered the same terms if they would return to the colors. The average Tommy could not see what the fuss was about. To him the solution was crystal-clear-more...