Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally Sir John was happy to report that French Ambassador Andre Charles Corbin told him last week that elaborate French preparations fortnight ago to move an army into the Saar on two hours notice if the Germans move first are "purely precautionary...
With all these assurances warming his old lawyer's cockles Sir John purred: "Thus we have the right to expect that, with due restraint in all quarters, the Saar plebiscite will be carried through in due order on Jan. 13 next...
...meagre hosts of British Fascism won a great victory last week over cocoa. Last February the London Evening Star of the cocoa-famed Cadbury brothers incautiously reported a debate between Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and Laborite James Maxton. "Sir Oswald," said the Evening Star, "warned Maxton that he and his Fascists would be ready to take over the government with the aid of machine guns when the moment arrived...
Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
...University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript volumes of Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander-in-Chief, probably the most important bundle of manuscript that ever crossed the Atlantic. Some "items": Burgoyne's and Cornwallis...