Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the British Admiralty, dynamic Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, continued last week his series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
Immediate construction of two new capital ships, the King George V and the Prince of Wales, each costing $40,000,000, was lately announced by Sir Samuel. In this the Admiralty is supported by the Committee on Imperial Defense which last week arrived at two blunt conclusions after months of exhaustive research: 1) "It is plain to us that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible, by bombing from the air"; 2) "We need ships equal in fighting power to those to which they may be opposed...
Erect, white-mustached General Sir Bindon Blood was last week appointed Chief of the Royal Corps of Engineers by King Edward, who thereby revived a Stuart office which lapsed in 1802.† Informed of his new job Sir Bindon remarked, "I was too old to go to France when I was 72 at the outbreak of war, but I am glad that I can be of service to my country now that I am nearly...
...King Edward's Coronation next May Sir Bindon Blood in his new role will be within not many arm's lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused...
...Though Sir Bindon's new post is practically a sinecure, his early predecessors supervised the design, construction and inspection of national fortifications, were in charge of Royal Artillery and ammunition...