Word: sassoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-page discussion, long-winded Editor Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane reviewed the arguments, appealed to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange to submit the negatives to experts. He answered her reason for secrecy by noting that Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, had announced in the House of Commons that "the Air Ministry did not consider any disciplinary action would be called for" by disclosure of the photographer's identity. Arguments summarized by Editor Grey: ¶ No British pilot is known to have made enough patrol flights to account for so many pictures. The 60 perfect pictures were said...
...SASSOON (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Mint...
When S. S. President Coolidge docked in Honolulu, Collector of the Port Mrs. Jeannette Hyde seized a case of beer, a case of wine belonging to Passenger Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, potent British banker. Fined $150. Sir Victor said: "It was really funny, being hauled in by a woman. I was frightfully embarrassed ... I had no idea that I was busting any of your jolly old United States laws...
...funds last year. Italy's team was so depleted by crashes that it canceled its entry. Even England would have had no entry last year had not Lady Houston put up the money after the Government refused it. Last week no one was greatly surprised when Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary for Air, told the House of Commons that the Schneider races were "completely over. . . . The contest has outlived its usefulness...
...moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...