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Word: kirke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precedent. Last week, when Germany embarrassed Russia by anchoring City of Flint at Murmansk, the U. S. State Department moved with calm deliberation. It asked its officials in Oslo, Moscow and Berlin for information. Alexander Kirk, chargé d'affaires in Berlin, made informal inquiries, reported the German claim that inadequate charts had forced the City of Flint to take refuge at Murmansk. What Germany demanded of Russia was not known. What the U. S. wanted was clear: it wanted information about the whereabouts and welfare of the crew. Coupled with U. S. playing down of the case, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Varsity runners finished as follows: one, H. Wonson (D); two, Jones (N.H.); three, E. L. Burwell '41 (H); four, E. Clark '40 (H); five, P. Tuttle '40 (H); six, Kirk (N.H); seven, D. Simboli '40 (H); eight, Williams (D); nine, Rivers (N.H.); ten, Bull (D); eleven, Underwood (N.H.); twelve, R. Wing '40 (H); thirteen, R. Jay '42 (H); fourteen, Sanborn (N.H.); fifteen, J. McLoughlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS TRIUMPH OVER INDIANS, NEW HAMPSHIRE | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...another American-the U. S. Naval Attaché in England, Captain Alan G. Kirk-to give Britain the last, happy word in the Ark Royal dispute. Capt. Kirk reported to the state department that in the course of a "routine official visit" to the Fleet, he attended church services and ate lunch aboard the Ark Royal, found her "not scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 42, ex-husband of the Duchess of Windsor, and Mary Kirk Raffray Simpson, 43; a son (premature); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...have any more nonsense about color." Not quite satisfied, a Negro editor from Nashville sounded the brass for the election of a "consecrated, learned, experienced black minister" as president of the Alliance, to "answer the challenge from barbaric paganism." He nominated Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, learned black pastor of one of the world's largest churches, Chicago's Olivet Baptist (membership: some 10,000). The Alliance then elected Dr. Rushbrooke its president. There was no more nonsense about color, most delegates feeling that Atlanta, which quietly shelved some of its racial laws during the congress, had kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Nonsense | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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