Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books, our files, papers and everything are at the Commissioner's disposal," said Sir Herbert. "Orders on hand are satisfactory and your board is considering the possibility of further development. But it does not seek to bring any influence to bear to increase the demand for armaments in this or any other country...
Recent discoveries in archeology: Palestine. Sir Charles Marston is spending much of his bicycle fortune for archeological research because he believes the world is a little better off every time his diggers confirm some scrap of Biblical history. Marston-financed is the expedition of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of London, now probing the site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first temple...
Meantime further finds were being made at Lachish which the expedition members, with Sir Charles off attending to other matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
Hepburn because he was a thoroughgoing Liberal and a close friend and adviser of the late Sir Adam Beck, "father of Hydro." As early as 1888 Mr. Lyon was editing a paper called the Labour Reformer. For 40 years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...
...Married. Sir Charles Marston. 68. retired British bicycle manufacturer, archeologist and Bible scholar, backer of the Wellcome expedition which last month turned up twelve potsherds at Tel ad Duweir (TIME, March 25); and Mrs. Mary Battey Bonney, director of the American Women's Association; in Manhattan...