Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruise: Section 1, C. D. Marshall, leader; Robert Bremer; C. A. Abele, Jr.; E. H. Clark, Jr.; D. T. Dodge; C. P. Lewis; M. B. Stone; John Wiggins; F. H. White; and F. L. Young 2nd.; Section 2, D. F. Pitcher, leader; R. G. Coburn, Jr.; Frederick Fraley, Jr.; Isaac Harter, Jr.; Howard Lapsley; Charles Morgan, Jr.; R. W. Pond; R. G. Werner; H. S. Williston; and D. J. Finlayson; Section 3, G. L. Dow, leader; Richard Borden; F. L. Crowley; Eugene DuBois; Andrew Hepburn; J. D. Hersey; R. A. Maish; G. Q. Thorndike; and R. F. White...
...Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes showed a copy of his six-volume Iconography of Manhattan Island, a most elaborately illustrated history of New York that usually brings from $1,000 to $1,500 at auction and is known all over the world...
...ousted Premier Lang had stalked with long strides out of his office, snarled "I'm through here!" at reporters, jackknifed his long body into his small motor car, pressed the starter and rattled off to his farm some miles from Sydney. Significantly "he had been dismissed not by Sir Isaac Isaacs, the Australian-born Governor General of the Commonwealth, but by British-born Sir Philip Game, the belligerently British Governor of the State.* Laborite supporters of Mr. Lang predicted that in the New South Wales election which must now be held, the "British meddling" of Sir Philip would sweep Laborite...
...King who appoints them, theoretically, on the advice of the local premier. In practice the King used to appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen," to be Governor General of Australia. For a governor to dismiss a premier is unusual but not unprecedented. Two Premiers of Quebec have been dismissed by their Governor...
Niggardly was the promotion bestowed by George V last week on Australia's Sir Isaac Isaacs "first native-born Governor General of a Dominion." Only the most strenuous Australian insistence moved His Majesty in the first place to appoint as representative of the Crown in Australia "a man whom the King has never seen" (TIME. Dec. 15, 1930). Last week Sir Isaac Isaacs, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, was promoted not into the peerage but merely to Knight Grand Cross in the order of which he was already a Knight Commander...