Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Falkenhorst read more carefully in the future. TIME [May 13, 1940] did not call him "master of land, sea & air." TIME said that the campaign he organized and led "was a masterpiece of organization as well as cunning surprise," that he "had proved himself a pitiless war lord." Said the caption under his picture: "He got there first-can he stay there last...
...show that the British Government meant what it said, Lord Wavell ordered the release of eight Congress party leaders interned since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics...
...they were suspected of being undercover agents for the Associated Press's Executive Director Kent Cooper, whose talk of global press freedom sounds to the British like pious sales talk for the A.P. The travelers had some sharp words for Britain's Minister of Information (now First Lord of the Admiralty) Brendan Bracken, who "patently did not care much for newspapers or the profession, but he gave it lip service within limitations. He . . . said that in his opinion no [London] editor, with the possible exception of the editor of the Times, had any real voice. . . . Editors, he found...
...them "the two most beautiful per sons at the party." Died. General John Milton Claypool, 98, unreconstructed Confederate, twice national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. Once, reluctantly agreeing to attend a Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, he magnanimously conceded: "Since the Lord has put up with the Yankees all this time, I guess...