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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widespread and we respect it," snapped Il Giornale next day, "but Britain owes her vast Empire not only to the enterprise and worth of her citizens but also to violent conquests which often were not very scrupulous." Next, small-fry Italian papers rehashed the predatory exploits of Britons from Sir Francis Drake to Lord Elgin who stole Greece's most valuable marbles and enshrined them in the British Museum...
Smack! Dictator Mussolini suppressed Ottobre and sent five Carabinieri and some detectives to protect Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Italy. In the House of Commons, Captain Eden rose for His Majesty's Government to call the Italian Press "wild." And Major Clement Attlee suggested: "If Italy intends to use force against Abyssinia we should close the Suez Canal to Italian troops...
...plum-The Foreign Secretaryship-had to go to the man who has put through Parliament this year a measure which has necessitated Parliamentary reports and documents amounting to 20 times the length of Holy Bible: the India Bill of tall, dapper, aquiline, baldish Sir Samuel Hoare. So dubious are the merits of this measure that it has been dubbed "the Hoarefrost," but as Secretary of State for India since 1931 Sam Hoare put it through, and no other British statesman has recently done anything so big. Why Sir Sam should not now be made Prime Minister, on the theory that...
...Corning, N. Y., famed Corning Glass Co. cast the telescope's most important part-a 5,000-lb. mirror of Pyrex glass. The disk was 74 in. across, a foot thick. After cooling for three months, it was shipped across the Atlantic to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons & Co., spent a year and a half making a polished concave surface true to the ideal paraboloid curve within two-millionths of an inch. Then it traveled back to the new observatory, where it was laboriously removed from its elaborate packing case, coated with silver, mersed into place...
Those are the Osler Oration and the Frank Billings Lecture. Older of the two is the Osler Oration, named after the late Sir William Osler (1849-1919), great practitioner and teacher of medicine. Osler Orator this year is Dr. Lewellys Franklin Barker, 67, Canadian-born successor to Osler as physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital...