Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, meantime, British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, having sped back from a visit to his dentist in Vienna, called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at the Palazzo Chigi, remained closeted for more than an hour...
...While Italian newshawks were filing back to London, Werner von Crome, chief London correspondent for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, his assistant, Franz Otto Wrede, and Wolf Dietrich Langen, a German newsagency correspondent, were preparing to go back to Germany. They had been informed by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare that their permits to remain in Britain would not be renewed. Declared Correspondent von Crome: "There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week...
...improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned the Commodore, asked: "Can't it be done?" Replied the Commodore...
...Sir Miles & $50,000,000. Entirely unmentioned in Cairo dispatches last week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised...
Lord Camrose (William Ewart Berry), who with his brother. Lord Kemsley (James Gomer Berry), has built up an $80,000,000 publishing empire in the last three decades, bought the Morning Post last week for a reported $750,000 (probably less) from a syndicate headed by Sir Percy Bates, board chairman of Cunard-White Star. On Aug. 27 Lord Camrose plans to merge the oldster with his Daily Telegraph. The name Post is likely to be dropped entirely, unless Lord Camrose should decide to launch an Evening Post, a name he had the foresight to register...