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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalling the fact that some months ago Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends...
...captain of a little freighter, Commander Sir Edgar Britten, Cunard White Star's commodore and commander of the Queen Mary, was locked in the Arctic ice near Archangel for five months. To him the next 20 minutes seemed as long. Could the eight tugs get Queen Mary off? Gaping crowds on shore stood only 20 feet from her stern, watched an epic feat of British seamanship...
Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...
...Cried Sir Osmond Grattan Esmonde, pro-British Member from Waterford: "Since you know you cannot defend yourself with such a force, you are relying on the British fleet for protection...
...profits more than tripled, increasing from $5,545,000 in 1934 to $17,065,000 in 1935. Higher prices, fewer gasoline wars, tighter control over production and record oil consumption helped Texaco as well as the rest of the industry. Shell Union Oil, U. S. affiliate of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell and the only company besides Texaco that distributes in every state in the Union, lately reported a spectacular jump in earnings, turning a $949,000 loss in 1934 into a $6,812,000 profit...