Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day the Foreign Office admitted that Mr. Hirota recently received from Mr. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...
...furnish relief to those suffering from the flood, and to provide for the repair of the broken dykes, and the building of them upon such a higher, larger, and stronger scale, that future floods might be prevented. Much foreign financial aid was sent to China at this time, and Sir John Hope Simpson was sent by the League of Nations to direct the work of this Commission. As indicating the magnitude of the preventive work to be undertaken, and the part played by the Chinese in that work, I will read a paragraph from Sir John's report...
...call the averages markedly significant until they are well above 7.5 per 25. The lumped results of five subjects comprising 13,750 trials show an average of 9. The improbability that these results could occur by chance, Dr. Rhine feels, is equal to the improbability suggested by Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, viz., if an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might accidentally write all the books in the British Museum...
Divorce Denied. To Lady Vera Hodge, onetime Countess of Cathcart, heroine of the uproarious "moral turpitude" incident in 1926:* from Sir Rowland Hodge, 75, Tyneside shipping tycoon; in London. Lady Hodge's charge: misconduct. Reason for denial: insufficient evidence...
...Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, Canadian rail-power-banking tycoon, resigned as president of far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, to become chairman of the board of directors...