Word: sark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to Europe tourist class on the Queen Mary, after a few months spent practically incognito in the U. S., sailed the Dame and Seigneur of Sark (Mrs. & Mr. Robert Woodward Hathaway*). Their realm: a tiny Channel island of 600 people, smallest self-governing state of the British Empire, which was chartered in 1565 by Queen Elizabeth and has never had automobiles, politics, divorces, income taxes or crime waves. Said the Dame of Sark: "The last crime trouble we had was several years ago, when a 14-year-old girl ran off with some article from a clothesline. We told...
Awarded. To Mrs. Drew Pearson, wife of the Washington columnist; exclusive custody and care of Tyler Abell, 5, her son by her first husband, Washington Journal ist George Abell; in Reno, Nev. In August Mr. & Mrs. Pearson pursued George and Tyler Abell to the Island of Sark, in the English Channel, "kidnapped" Tyler. The court held that George Abell forfeited custody of Tyler by violating a previous Nevada decree forbidding him to take Tyler...
...lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous." Instant later he stepped into the Western Air Express plane for Los Angeles. Month ago another famed couple, the Dame and Seigneur of Sark, just missed a WAE plane in Los Angeles. It has not been seen since (TIME, Dec. 28). Last week the Johnsons, both experienced pilots, gave small thought to this disaster, the first in WAE's ten-year history...
Other islands banning automobiles: Sark in the English Channel, Venice...
Thereupon Captain Allen made for London, but news of the two tons of TNT had preceded him, and at Gravesend he was told that the Santa Maria was not wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...