Word: ironclads
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...swollen ankle should evoke no surprise if one considers the rigors of a Ping Pong tournament. Technical parlance for the damaging manoeuvre is said to be "Reaching for a wide one." There is no substance to the rumor that Professor Baxter stubbed his toe on a copy of the "Ironclad Battleship...
...will, probated last week, he left legacies of 10,000 francs each ($550 Roosevelt) to the 18 employes on his farm. Each employe was also given a costume from the Barlow collection. An ironclad clause in the will provided that none of the legacies should be paid unless the 18 legatees wore their fancy costumes continuously for one year. Chinese mandarin, cossack, matador, Indian rajah and Hawaiian went stolidly about their work last week, counting the days...
...largest Tory majority in British history (TIME, Nov. 9). Since the War tariffs have again become a leading Tory policy. Against his will, Mr. MacDonald was forced to appoint as Chancellor of the Exchequer famed Tariff Champion Neville Chamberlain. Next April or sooner, Chancellor Chamberlain will bring in an ironclad British Tariff Act, sure to pass. But emergency tariff measures are in the hands of Britain's obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board from skyrocketing tariffs up at once beyond all reason, Free Trader Mac-Donald (still a Socialist), appointed Free Trader Runciman (Liberal...
...Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went...
...terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...