Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the physical prestige of a man six and a half feet tall, with all the au- thority of a peer who has just relinquished the great office of Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin told the leaders of the British Conservative Party in London last week that "the prestige of the white man in India has been lost and probably cannot be recovered...
When a knight, even a Jewish knight, has been appointed Governor General of a British Dominion, he has every right to expect that he will be made a peer the next time His Majesty makes a batch of peers...
Only British M. P. to be knighted was sturdy Ben Turner, staunch Labor henchman of the Prime Minister, onetime weaver, now textile union head. In general the Honors List reflected Scot MacDonald's disapproval of the peerage-no new peer was created...
...offerings run the gamut of musical compositions from the deep overture of "Tannhauser" of the immoral Wagner to the lighter melody of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Boccherini's Minuet. The program is as follows: Polonaise Chopin "Barber of Seville" overture Rossini Minuet Boccherini "Madame Butterfly" Fantasia Puccini "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg "Valse Trieste" Sibelius "Tannhauser" overture Wagner "Girl Crazy" selections Gershwin "Artist Life" Walty Strauss Hungarin March Berlioz
President Bishop is 67, tall, heavyset, with twinkling brown eyes which peer from beneath black bushy eyebrows. In 1881, with a common school education and a course in accounting, he went to work in the general offices of Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rr. (later New York Central). At the age of 24 he was made general agent for Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Ry. Ten years later he started his utility career by building the Fort Worth-Dallas interurban line, first in Texas. He has an interest in many utility companies now and one of his most important positions...