Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of affairs was exactly what able British airmen had expected would come about when the gentlemen of the Air Ministry recently maneuvered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into dismissing the only one of its civil servants with a practical grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature...
...moment under the eyes of the King's men & women. Visibly unhappy, Edward VIII decided to give a stag houseparty at Sandringham, the house in which King George died. Guests included His Majesty's brother-in-law the Earl of Harewood and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare for whom the King since his accession has shown much liking...
...resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. It was apparent that Mr. Hearst, while personally investigating, ordered his newsorgans to play down as much as possible the Mrs. Simpson story, and in recent weeks Hearst editors have repeatedly blue-penciled or killed dispatches from London on this subject. Sir Godfrey Thomas, for 15 years Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and now Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward, recently conferred at length with Mr. Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII...
...granted in England only by a decree nisi or "unless." This juridical joker means that a final decree will be issued in six months (or less at the discretion of the court) "unless" in the meanwhile evidence of a discrediting nature is discovered by the King's Proctor, Sir Thomas Barnes. To this official, a personal appointee of the Sovereign, spiteful persons annually send thousands of anonymous letters. Some of these the King's Proctor turns over to detectives. Some of their snooping turns up facts discreditable enough to impress the blase Proctor. When much impressed he drafts...
Died. Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, 76, rector of London's swank St. Margaret's Church, since 1913 Canon of Westminster; in London. In 1916 he married the widow of Statesman Joseph Chamberlain, thus became the stepfather of Statesmen Neville and Sir Austen Chamberlain...