Word: palmerston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suez Canal today is a great convenience to the world's shipping but before it was built in 1859, Britain's great Lord Palmerston saw it as a potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then...
...school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
Died. The Hon. Katherine Plunket. Ill., oldest woman in the British Isles (she survived the reigns of George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses...
...since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor's gown, said he: "I consider Mr. Wells's references to the King simply a dark line in the historian's larger contributions about national life...
...furnishes the material for "The Schleswig-Holstein Question" by L. D. Steefel '16, Professor at the University of Minneapolis. The book is the study of the machinations of Bismarck and takes one side of a controversial subject. It is said that Bismarck was not included in Lord Palmerston's list of those who really understood the complexities of the Schleswig-Holstein question, but Professor Steefel believes that he deserved to head...