Word: leached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After declaring that the best way of ensuring peace was to prepare for peace and denouncing the maxim of "Trust in God and keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help...
...reference librarians, under the direction of Librarian H. S. Leach, have compiled a complete bibliography of Wilson's writings and correspondence from 1875 to his death. The display is to be made a feature of alumni day, February...
...Commissioner and Acting Commissioner of Police of New York. Commissioner Enright, deeply stirred by two outrageous crimes during last week, announced that the only possible remedy for the state of affairs was a more stringent pistol law, and then headed south for a sojourn in Bermuda. Acting Commissioner Leach has now taken up the reins and decided sapiently to settle the bother by running crooks and male-factors out of town...
Commissioner Leach's scheme is just the old one of "passing the buck", poorly concealed. If the scum were skimmed from New York, it would of course fall upon the next gold mine--perhaps Boston or Philadelphia. And since New York is the richest mine of all, it would come slipping back as soon as the temporary vigilance relaxed. The onus cannot be shifted. If the police cannot police the city, then it becomes time for internal reformation; and if the present Commissioners cannot handle the situation, the burghers of New York will doubtless find it expedient to institute...
...addition to these three main articles, the forthcoming number of the review will contain a department of notes and cases and a series of book reviews written by the members of the editorial board. The note editor is W. Barton Leach Jr. 31, the case editor if J McCauley Landia 21 and the book reviews are under the direction of Roger S Foxier...