Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political importance was neither brief nor passing. Academician. Dr. Tugwell is not the kind of man who ordinarily is an issue in U. S. politics. When he was being questioned by Senators (TIME, June 18), Iowa's Senator Murphy demanded: "Did you ever follow a plow?" "Yes, sir." ''Did you ever have mud on your boots?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know how hard it is to get a dollar out of the soil?" "Yes, sir." All these "correct" answers referred to the time when as a college boy Rex Tugwell used to work during vacations...
...exciting week of total failure to make London pedestrians stop jaywalking last week put Sir John Gilmour, Bart., grizzled and humorless Home Secretary, into the testiest of tempers. No other Cabinet officer has more direct control over British subjects. Scotland Yard is directly under the Home Secretary; administration of workmen's compensation laws fits into his portfolio; he advises the King when to exercise the right of pardon; he bars undesirable aliens and outranks all His Majesty's other Secretaries of State...
King Prajadhipok of Siam bedded himself in a private London clinic where Sir Stewart Duke-Eldor probed from his left eye a reformation of the cataract which the King had removed in Manhattan three years ago (TIME, May 18, 1931). King Prajadhipok will sail for the U. S. Sept. 8, to undergo a cataractomy on his right...
...blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...
...markets and full and continued disclosure of the character of offerings made. . . . Regulation with such objectives is neither regimentation nor enforced control. . . I noted the other day that Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, said that on the whole the Act was all right. Praise from Sir Richard at such a time is praise indeed...