Word: milner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible. Smuts saw that war was imminent, worked like a Dutchman to prevent it. Nevertheless it came. (According to Author Millin, neither side really wanted war which was the work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise and hoped for help from Europe...
HARVARD '39 NEWTON HIGH Stone, 1.w. r.w., Macleod Harding, c. c., Daniels Scalfe, r.w. 1.w., Miner Houghton, 1.d. r.d., Whitehead Foaron, 1.d. 1.d., Milner Irving, g. g., Buttrick...
...Smith African term for the entourage of exquisite and esthetic voting Oxonians who accompanied the late Lord Milner to his post of South African High Commissioner after the Boer War and profoundly astonished the colonists...
...Cincinnati, Albert Malenfant met his maidservant's fiancé for the first time when the man came to the door with the announcement that the girl, Helen Milner, had fainted in his car. Employer and fiancé carried the girl upstairs to bed. The fiancé left "to get a doctor." Mrs. Malenfant bathed the girl's forehead, discovered a bullet hole behind Miss Milner's ear. The girl had been dead for an hour. The fiancé had vanished...
Suing for Divorce. Diana Churchill Bailey, daughter of Britain's Rt. Hon Winston Churchill; from John Milner Bailey, son of Sir Abe Bailey, Transvaal gold mine owner; in London...