Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massingham made his journalistic debut on the Norfolk News, but it was not until he became editor of the Daily Chronicle that he made bis name in the newspaper world. Under him the Daily Chronicle was accounted the best journal in London from every point of view, and since those days Mr. Massingham has acquired a great deal of respect and even admiration in newspaper and literary circles. Nor was this popularity confined to Liberal thought, as was shown recently by the acceptance of articles from Mr. Massingham by J. St. Loe Straehey, editor of The Spectator, which used...
Eddie Foy, comedian, was there with his new wife. Harry Wills sat by, in fawn suitings, looking glum. Jack Johnson and Kid Norfolk chatted with Battling Siki, who grinned the while, not understanding much English...
...establish such an industry on a sound basis in this country." The first sale will take place on Oct. 25 and will consist of ships under construction on the ways in Government Navy yards: Battleships South Dakota and Indiana at New York; Montana at Mare Island; North Carolina at Norfolk. Battle cruisers* Constitution and United States at Philadelphia. The second sale, on Nov. 1, will include older vessels, now afloat but out of commission: Battleships New Hampshire (launched 1906) and Louisiana (1904) at Philadelphia; Georgia (1904) and Rhode Island (1904) at Mare Island; Connecticut (1904) at Puget Sound. The third...
Died Caldwell Hardy, 71, former President of the American Bankers' Association (1902), at Norfolk, Va., of heart disease...
...first duke to be created was the Duke of Cornwall, 1337, but this has always been a royal title. Originally all peers were supposed to be equal. The senior peer of the peerage is Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 15 years of age, who, by virtue of his rank, carries the extra titles of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England. The dukedom dates from...