Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finley Wilson, the "Little Napoleon of Negro Elkdom," an invitation to review a parade in Washington on Aug. 27, during the IBPOEW convention. Joining with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight Roy Solomon Bond, Maryland's most famed Negro lawyer, who claims to have won more divorce cases than any lawyer of any color in his State; Brigadier General of the Antlered Guards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Delaware Arthur Newman, onetime A. E. F. infantry captain...
...Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...loyal M. P.'s flayed the Manchester school inspector, London's sensation-sheets made a heroine of Moppet Maud, who was rushed to the House of Commons and popped into the visitors' gallery to hear aristocratic Major Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education, report on her case...
Because in Prince Edward Island every winning candidate was a Liberal last week, Liberal provincial Premier-Elect Walter Lea had fun reflecting that under traditional British parliamentary procedure he might be in a quandary since there was nobody to represent His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Canadian editors joined in facetiously suggesting that Prince Edward Island solve the parliamentary difficulty by voting itself down to the status of a county or up to that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed...
...crew of H. M. S. Bounty mutinied in mid-Pacific, put Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal men into an open boat, sailed to Tahiti. Instead of starving or drowning, Captain Bligh and his sailors made a voyage of 4,000 miles back to England, sent a frigate to punish the mutineers. When the frigate reached Tahiti, only a few of the mutineers were there to be hanged. The rest had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island where they had beached and burned her and where their descendants still live...