Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wisest Vienna gossips were all repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain. Sir Austen Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord & Lady Astor, was in Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back...
Every important Austrian statesman stayed in Vienna to interview Sir Austen last week. When four days after the wedding he jumped into a train for Prague, quidnuncs insisted it was to do his best to convince the suspicious Czechs that a Habsburg restoration in Austria would be less of a threat than Nazification to their country...
...year's best British aviator, the League's members in 22 countries voted for Henry F. Broadbent, who flew from England to Australia in 6 days, 21 hr. 19 min., lowering the record set by the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, whose round-Australia time he also bettered...
...wrote a long letter to John J. Burns, general counsel to the Securities & Exchange Commission. They wanted to know, in effect, whether it would be legal for Lehman clients and certain associated bankers to stabilize the market for stock in Flint-kote Co., control of which Lehman bought from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell (TIME, March 30). Lehman was distributing stock in this old U. S. roofing and asphalt concern to the public, and the open market price of the stock had dropped $3 per share below the figure Lehman was asking on its offering...
...Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...