Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
...mound on Ards Peninsula, Ireland, said to contain a Viking ship burial, a large "crannog," or lake-dwelling, bronze-age cairns in Galway county, and an iron-age village way county, and an iron-age village in Wicklow county will be excavated by Hencken and his associates. A sociological study of county Clare will be carried on under the management of W. L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology...
...Peninsula of Istria is on the east shore of the Adriatic. Istrians were Austrians from 1813 until 1919 and speak mostly Slavonic. Many are Croats and Slovenes...
...constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom. Last month he noted with interest Montevideo businessmen's protest meetings against heavy taxes. He called in toward Montevideo the regiments he most trusted in the volunteer Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department which is organized on military lines. To the firehouse he went, ordered the hose laid out, set up his headquarters. Then he gave Uruguay's model Constitution three...
Governor Comstock soon made the holiday optional and many banks outside Detroit reopened with severe restrictions on withdrawals. In Ann Arbor, home of the State University, banks allowed $20 to heads of families. Banks in the northern peninsula across Lake Michigan resumed normal business...