Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelming vote the T. U. C. then condemned fascisms of every kind, demanded that Parliament pass a law barring Sir Oswald Mosley and all other "British Fascists" from drilling their supporters or supplying them with arms...
...nervous was His Majesty's Government about Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley's mass meeting in Hyde Park last week that it assigned 7,000 London police to chaperone it. When tall, aristocratic Sir Oswald uprose to speak, he was surrounded by five concentric rings...
Straightway the ring of Communists broke into mournful Red songs, boos and shouts. Then they dug into paper bags and sent a hail of ripe tomatoes whistling at Sir Oswald. His voice rising to a near-scream, Fascist Mosley replied: "Behind these hooligans are alien Jewish financiers, supplying them with palm...
Leon Fraser, president of the World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their...
Died. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David, 76, geologist, member of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition (1907-09), discoverer of the South Magnetic Pole; in Hornsby, New South Wales...