Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stamping out a threatened rise of heresy, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and official Harvard historian, early this week requested the Student Union to change the name of one of its sub-committees from Campus to Yard Questions...
...week which was trying to many British businessmen (see col. 3), the nation as a whole was cheered to have its faith in the British Navy renewed by Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, who, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, has been increasingly often mentioned as one of two or three statesmen with a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. Sir Samuel would certainly know, reasons the average Englishman, whether there is any validity in the rumors that Air Power has now outmoded Sea Power. This onetime Air Minister was Foreign Secretary when Benito Mussolini faced down British ships...
...hope no future Foreign Secretary will ever be put in the position in which I found myself," said the First Lord last week at Edinburgh. "That state of affairs must never occur again!" To remedy it the Admiralty will build more warships, Sir Samuel said, and went on to announce momentously that the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, appointed to probe the "bombers v. battle ships" controversy, has now unanimously recommended against the substitution of fighting aircraft for British capital ships. "When the country hears more of the question," summed up Sir Samuel, "there will...
Meanwhile in London, sputtering Soviet Counsellor Samuel Cahan and silk-hatted Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky were blustering at Lord Plymouth in the Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...
Among these working on the committee with Floyd are Edward H. Bennett '37, Charles C. Buell '22, Edward L. Casey '17. Samuel M. Felton 3d '13. George S. Ferd, Jr. '27, George P. Gardner, Jr. '10, Huntington R. Hardwick '16, Delmar Leighton '18, George Oven, Jr. '23, Frederick R. Mosely Jr. '20, Leverett Soltonatall'14, and William H. Schmidt...