Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love to America!" Seventy-one-year-old Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, wiped tears from her eyes. The King's daughters, Princess Elizabeth, 13-year-old heir-presumptive to the throne, and Princess Margaret Rose, 8, waved handkerchiefs. An obsequious bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious war, flew the white ensign of the Royal Navy, the yellow-&-red Admiralty flag...
Last month Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare announced in the House of Commons that a close watch was being kept on Nazi doings in Great Britain. The expulsion of two men and a woman, officials of German organizations, soon followed. The Nazis struck back by booting out of Hamburg three British businessmen. Last week six more German agents were ordered to pack their bags. Adolf Hitler's newsorgan, Völkischer Beobachter, fumed...
...whole of our contemporary public finance is governed and conditioned by our defense spending," explained Sir John. It is this cruel necessity which transforms our budget and increases our borrowing, and makes it necessary to shoulder grievous burdens and face unprecedented totals, without the pressure of which taxpayers might rejoice over a lightening load." Proof of Sir John's words was found in the fact that nearly half ($3,150,000.000) of the great outlay was to go into Britain's rapidly expanding defenses...
...Sir John's latest budget was orthodox if heavy. Only $1,900,000,000 of the amount will be borrowed, the rest will be raised by bigger taxes. Britons will have to pay no new taxes, just more of the same stiff taxes they have had since the World...
Seeking Divorce. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, president of the Washington Star and former president of Associated Press; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, longtime Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Florida...