Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...desire tonight, and I am sure it is yours also ? " began Author Barrie when called upon by Major Astor, "my one desire is to be nice to Mr. Baldwin. It is not his fault that he is a Worcestershire man ? after all Shakespeare came very near being a Worcestershire man, but his mother slipped across into Warwickshire to give the boy a chance. How hard on me it is to make a speech when I know the Prime Minister would far rather I told him a detective story...
...George Owen Squier, electrical engineer and major general, predicted radio being received in most U. S. homes over telephone and light wires. He urged that high schools give lessons over such radio...
...person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdlička when the job was put up to him last week. So Major George Russell Callender, curator of the Army Medical Museum...
...national conventions of both major political parties were covered by A. P. correspondents from every state, to cater to sectional interest...