Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
First to greet them was Admiral Sir William James, commander in chief of the Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...
...worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist...
...Illustrated back on the streets of London after a lapse of 20 years. Publisher was William Ewert Berry, now Lord Camrose, proprietor of a mammoth chain of newspapers (including the Daily Telegraph), and one of Britain's fabulous press peers.† Its editor was 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton (knighted in 1932), greyhaired but husky as ever...
...crack London reporter, Frederick Birchall and some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal...