Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammered out of aristocratic Air Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister the admission that British firms are now selling aircraft engines to Germany to power the battle planes with which Realmleader Hitler has so upset the British public...
...long as exports go on," said Sir Philip icily, "it is eminently desirable that British firms should export and that British labor be employed...
...Grilled First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell concerning newspaper charges by Welsh Has-Been David Lloyd George that His Majesty's Government could have persuaded Realmleader Hitler to write a German pledge to abolish submarines into the exchange of notes in which Britain gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24). Nettled, Sir Bolton admitted that abolition of submarines had been discussed during the negotiations but insisted that the British Government had obtained from the German Government everything Realmleader Hitler was willing to concede. Stenographic records of the parley were then...
...from H.R.H. was all to the good, but His Majesty's Government recently permitted their British Broadcasting Corp. to do full justice to the great issue What Is An Englishman? Employed to answer was brilliant Harold Nicolson, son of Edward VII's late great Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. Son Nicolson today is perhaps the Empire's most entertaining biographer of statesmen recently deceased, from his own father to Lord Curzon. Broadcast...
Pennsylvania suffered in two spots last week from too much faith in scientific preventive medicine. The trouble began 40 years ago when Sir Almroth Edward Wright, redoubtable young Irishman, made inoculation against typhoid fever a practicable medical procedure. U. S. sani- tarians were slow to pick up his methods. Consequently 20,738 U. S. soldiers, nearly one-fifth of those mobilized, suffered from typhoid-1,580 died- during the brief War with Spain. Simultaneously Dr. Wright, as a member of the India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every...