Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany in 1919. Question No. 1! where would the A. E. F. take its place in the line? Selected, after long conferences, was a sector east of Verdun in Lorraine. Question No. 2: how would this sector, eventually to hold 1,000,000 men, be supplied from the rear? In answer General Pershing began to map out a Service of Supply which stretched from the Bay of Biscay across all France below Paris almost to the Vosges Mountains...
Lady Ovey is French. The Ambassador's first wife was the daughter of a U. S. Rear Admiral. Young for a diplomat (51), Sir Esmond's first post as Minister was in Mexico (1925-29). When Prime Minister MacDonald recognized the Soviet Government two years ago, he first picked a more prominent Briton as Ambassador, then switched to Sir Esmond at the last minute...
...Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...
...squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...