Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same rebuff his successor, Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard, resigned...
Since January, Sir John has been planning to float a rearmament loan of $1,500,000,000-three times as much as the British have spent buying U. S. securities since 1935. For some time he has been hinting that he could not raise all this money so long as Englishmen remained free to put their investment cash into U. S. securities. Meanwhile, since 1935, Englishmen, fearful of war, had shipped $500,000,000 to the U. S., now have about $1,000,000,000 invested in marketable U. S. securities. Silent pressure has gradually reduced the flow, since first...
Divorced. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, since 1910 president of the Washington Star; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Lake Worth...
Died. General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, 68, popular onetime Governor of Bermuda (1931-36); in Buckinghamshire, England. Mild Sir Thomas made no protest when the Bermuda Assembly refused to grant him an automobile...
...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...