Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain, broadcasting on a Kingdom and Empire hookup, last week inaugurated the Fitter Britain Campaign with this plaintive cry: "Many people still seem unaware of the benefits they might obtain for themselves and their children if they would only take what is offered them...
...South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement for the return to Germany of her former colonies, if it cost South Africa none of its security." This so alarmed London bigwigs that Reuters, the news agency closest to the Government, requested all newsorgans in the United Kingdom to withhold further publication of remarks by Mr. Charles te Water who next said in Montreal: "I was speaking only in my personal capacity for I believe the atmosphere can be cleared by discussing with Germany all her general grievances...
...shaping his $220,000,000 kingdom, William Randolph Hearst did not go after the investing public's unsuspecting dollars in an ambitious way until 1930. Then he high-pressured $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock on the public during Depression...
...merely a family feud which last week resulted in the death of General Sidki, but his assassin, Abdulla Ibrahim, a relative of the murdered Defense Minister, unwittingly served the cause of the British. For General Sidki's rule imperiled Britain's dominance over young King Ghazi whose kingdom lies on Britain's air route to the East, and Sidki's taking off made the Orient safer for the King Emperor George...
...that it meant the end of that name in the business he had founded. What the new name will be is yet to be determined by the banking houses of Emanuel & Co. and Schroder, Rockefeller & Co. Inc. but placed in charge as the active heir to Cord's kingdom was his hard-boiled lieutenant and friend of many years, Lucius Bass Manning, now president of Aviation Corp., who personally acquired 158,000 of Cord's 500,000 shares of Cord Corp. stock...