Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel from 1953 to 1958-he held the job longer than any other Navy officer in 75 years-he was one of the few flag-rank officers who fought the Navy's real Lord Plushbottoms to push the promotion to flag rank of Hyman Rickover, prickly pioneer of the atomic submarine. One day, to a group of young naval officers, he summed up his philosophy of leadership in a way that defines his value to the nation today. Said he: "You men probably do not think...
...since the visit of Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, had a foreign visitor so quickly found a role in domestic politics. Some Deep South Democrats boycotted his speeches to Congress. Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, crowded for reelection, made much of him when at week's end Nkrumah began his tour of the U.S. in Harlem. For his part, Nkrumah, laughing with a strong man's sympathy, hoped that he had given American Negroes a cause for pride by personifying the new Africa's promise of dignity in world affairs...
...intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates at the Royal Naval College at Osborne would on occasion...
...centuries-long paring down of its once formidable powers, Britain's House of Lords has suffered many a trauma. But few came as quite such a shock as the Great Trauma of 1922. That year the Viscountess Rhondda, a doughty Welsh suffragette who went to jail once for dropping a crude incendiary bomb inside a post box, had the gall to request a writ of summons that would give her a seat alongside Their Lordships. A few of the noble lords found her petition "irresistible," but not so the grumpy Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Birkenhead. The Lord Chancellor...
...United Nations General Assembly was a golden-voiced Connecticut Democrat: Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. The choice strengthened what has become a U.S. tradition of naming distinguished women as U.N. delegates. Among her predecessors: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Ohio Republican Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord...