Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a paunch (see cut), but the same is not true of John Bull and last week His Majesty's Government launched an enormously costly campaign to make currently flabby Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain, broadcasting on a Kingdom and Empire hookup, last week inaugurated the Fitter Britain Campaign with this plaintive cry: "Many people still seem unaware...
Correctly foreseeing that the Japanese Government would not pay a brass farthing in indemnity for the machine-gunning of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugessen (TIME, Sept. 6), the British Government did not ask any money. This was "manifestly unfair" to good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME...
...Alabama and assistant to Bishop William H. Heard. Last month, death came to 87-year-old Bishop Heard soon after he returned from Scotland where, during deliberations of the World Conference on Faith & Order, he was barred from an Edinburgh hotel, commiserated with by the Archbishop of York and Sir John Simon (TIME, Aug. 16). Bishop Sims earns $6,800 a year, rules his flocks with liberality, as contrasted with most African Methodist bishops, who generally disapprove of dancing and fun-making. But he is a disciplinarian, was quick last week to suspend the presiding elder of his Philadelphia district...
Same week their boats started back in tow of their motor yachts. Endeavour I was skippered by Ned Heard, veteran of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers. Endeavour II by 58-year-old George Williams. After three days Viva returned to Newport to announce that Endeavour I had once again snapped her towline-this time in a hurricane gale. After a week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good...
Through his solicitors in London, venerable Statesman David Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished...