Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremonial signing, at long last, in the historic East Room of the White House, of trade treaties with Great Britain and Canada, came to pass last week (see p. 53). To the Nation's First Hostess was left the first official announcement of another major international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna...
...private foreign news service to an extent never before attempted by a paper in Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over the Czechoslovakia!! issue. A second prediction, the blunt assertion that "Germany will not march." appeared late in September when the Czechoslovakian crisis looked its blackest...
Bigger news to U. S. readers was the appearance of Major George Fielding Eliot's The Ramparts We Watch, which outlines an intelligent policy of national defense, warns of the menace of war and yet manages to be reassuring. Major Eliot confidently, convincingly affirms that the U. S. can build an impregnable military force without endangering her democratic traditions, without becoming a warlike power...
Veteran. Big, stoop-shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he migrated to Australia with his parents at eight, returned to the U. S. to school, was in college at Melbourne when the War broke out. He fought at the Dardanelles from May through August 1915, was transferred to the Western front, where he went through the battles of the Somme...
Fluent, forthright, well-informed, Major Eliot's ordinary conversation is a blend of profanity, military terminology and rolling oratorical flourishes. It brought him success as a lecturer; magazine contributions gave him a reputation; and in 1937 he collaborated with Major Richard Ernest Dupuy in writing // War Comes, a survey of potential war zones...