Word: peelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''bobbies"). In the House of Commons Earl Peel was called "Never-merry" Peel because "his disposition ... is not precisely sweet." This year, he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine that sourly recommended partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
Officers for 1937-38 are William W. Hancock '38, president; Robert W. Bean '39, vice-president; Lawrence F. Ebb '39, secretary-treasurer; and F. Welch Peel '39, secretary for publicity...
...bootlegging. New, however, was the evidence on which the 'leggers were convicted. Exhibited for the jury was a unique liquor sold wholesale at $7 for a five gallon tin, retail at a nickel a pony. According to the thoroughgoing New York Times, it was colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation of self-centered power, while the images of external things buckled and broke." Its title: King Kong Whiskey...
...existing system in Palestine could only end in disaster!" broadcast from London Earl Peel, Chairman of the Royal Commission. "I predict peace between Jews and Arabs when each have their own states in Palestine...
...Last week Tennessee's new law setting 16 years as the minimum age for brides brought 12-year-old Geneva Hamby Peel and gangling, 32-year-old Homer Peel into court at Madisonville. But Judge A. T. Stewart sent the child back to the hills with her husband in the belief that she would be better off there than with her ne'er-do-well mother or in a State institution...