Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island once put red dye into 5,000 quarts of Vermont milk...
...Malta was warned to be ready for instant duty. Leaves were cut short. Admittedly a French-British "naval demonstration" in the Mediterranean was under way and blunt notice was expected to be served on Italy that any attempt to attack Greece and especially to take Corfu, the Greek island at the Adriatic's mouth, would mean war. In 1923 Dictator Mussolini himself seized Corfu, left only after extensive diplomatic maneuvering by Britain and France...
...chief of Army staff, conferred on "common military problems." Field Marshal Hermann Goring was in Italian Libya as the guest of Governor Air Marshal Italo Balbo. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, after a brief and none-too-cordial reception in Egypt, arrived at the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 45,000 Italian troops were reported as having landed. On the neighboring Dodecanese Islands, strongly fortified Ital ian naval base at the mouth of the Aegean Sea, 15,000 troops awaited orders. Albania was being made a strong Italian military base. In Italy more reservists...
...general editor of the impressive Pageant of America series issued by the Yale University Press in fifteen volumes. He compiled two of the volumes in the series himself, "Toilers of Land and Sea" and "The Rise of the Frontier," and also is the author of "The Evolution of Long Island" among other works in the field of American History...
...occasional verse, author of 28 books, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Barrett Wendell and His Letters, the monumental five-volume Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany. A professional Harvard man like Holmes, loving Boston no less than Holmes did (although he was born in Rhode Island, brought up in Philadelphia), Howe is an overseer of Harvard, was for 25 years a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into more polished...