Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, four pundits (NBC's Joseph C. Harsch, Bob Hecox and David Brinkley, and the New York Times's Arthur Krock) stepped up and spoke on subjects ranging from Indo-China to the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week four more experts (NBC's Richard Harkness and Romney Wheeler, the Denver Post's Palmer Hoyt and the Manchester Guardian's Washington cor respondent Max Freedman) dealt more coherently with the single subject: Anglo-American relations...
...Grey was to win a place in history as "the very type of old Whig nobleman, punctiliously honorable and high-minded." As Prime Minister, to the gnashing of Tory teeth, he pushed through the Reform Bill of 1832, set Parliament on its modern course as a democratic house. George Romney's portrait of him almost succeeds in characterizing a sitter whose character was not yet evident. He caught Charles Grey's idealism as well as his pride, conveyed both in the open brow, direct glance and faint curl of the lips...
...Stephen Romney Maurice Gill, 65, is a third-generation missionary, has worked in New Guinea since he was ordained a deacon 42 years ago in the Church of England. In 1938 he became the Archdeacon of Mamba...
Back in England last month for medical treatment, ailing Archdeacon Gill heard from his people. Their chief had suddenly died; equally troubling, they feared that their Archdeacon might not be coming back. "Oh my dear Father Romney Gill," they wrote. "This request is not from us the Manau boys merely, but it is from God we are speaking. You landed a long time ago on our shore, you brought to us the news of our Lord Jesus, and our fathers rose up and loved you and you loved our fathers . . . Now seeing your sickness our hearts are very troubled...
...would return, he replied, and promptly set off for New Guinea. Last week, the Church Times had news to announce about Archdeacon Gill. Stephen Romney Maurice Gill was back at his post, and his parishioners, in their joy, had elected him chief of the tribe. "No white man," said the Times, "has ever before been so honored...