Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...
...Great Britain relied on voluntary enlistments until May 1916. In 1914, 1,186,000 volunteered in 1915, 1,280,000 In the first four months of 1916, 401,000 enlisted. In charge of the draft in Lloyd George's Government was an inconspicuous half-brother of famed Sir Austen Chamberlain, 47-year-old Neville Chamberlain...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, eloquent William Ewart Gladstone made budget speeches famous. Winston Churchill used to gesture a lot. Neville Chamberlain (now Prime Minister) usually had the amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone...
Carefully timing his remarks so that none of his important disclosures would be made before Europe's stock exchanges were closed for the day, Sir John announced a budget 40% higher than last year's record-breaker, said that the 45,000,000 citizens of the United Kingdom would spend $6,610,000,000 on their Government between April 1, 1939 and April 1, 1940.* Moreover, he warned, the Government might very well find it necessary to up expenditures from time to time as the situation warranted...
What love interest there is in the story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...