Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been a believer in making a Four-Power Pact between Britain, Germany, France and Italy as a first step toward "The United States of Europe," proposed at Geneva by France's greatest Man of Peace...
...Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
...President of the New York Stock Exchange for five years. ''The terrible thing about the Whitney scandal.'' wrote Financial Editor Leslie Gould of the New York Journal & American, "is . . . that the broker was the White Knight of the financial district. Whitney was Sir Richard when he went into battle in shining armor against the 1929 crash and again when he stood up and defied Washington and the reformers. Now it turns out that this Great White Knight was an optical illusion...
...given by Britain's brilliant, opinionated Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the seven fundamental constants of Nature...
...Died. Sir James MacBrien, 59, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; of cancer; in Toronto. A hard-bitten trooper who once said, "Security without peace is better than peace without security," Sir James mechanized the red-coated Mounties, giving them motorcars, airplanes, motorcycles, motorboats...