Word: salmond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought to be a rare Eastern disease; in London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died. Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark...
...Year's saw an "upgrading" in Britain's Royal Air Force, inflation of its status without actual increase of its ranks. The R. A. F.'s commanding officer, Sir John Maitland Salmond, was upped from the rank of Air Chief Marshal to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Field Marshal in the army. To fill Sir John's old rank, not one but two Air Chief Marshals were created. That required promotions all down the line. Vice marshals became marshals; air commodores were boosted to vice marshals; group captains to air commodores; wing...
...Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department...
Bach's Arioso and Granados' Goyescas Intermezzo by Felix Salmond (Columbia, $1.25)-'Cellist Salmond makes a particularly neat arrangement of the Intermezzo to which La Argentina does one of her most seductive dances...