Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Berlin arrived Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who sat for Britain on the Commission of Ambassadors which settled the final territorial details of the Munich peace. About the best he could say was that whereas at Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British...
...score. "Well," he hazarded, "Princeton's inexperienced, but they're fighters. Their Mountain is a great back, and center Casey is tough on defense. Remember, though, when your Harlow gets your team into the form it was in last year's Yale game, it will murder anybody, yes sir, even Pittsburg...
Amazed by the fact that Widener Library was able to show him the original manuscript of his first play, Sir Cedric Hardwieke, the majestic Canon of the current hit "Shadow and Substance," was enthusiastic about the state of dramatics at Harvard and the reception which he received at his talk here yesterday, sponsored by the Dramatic Club...
...Lord Mayor of London, kindly Sir Harry Twyford, whose instant reaction to Munich was to start a charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...Sir Harry Twyford and Messrs. Gillies and Grenfell were joined by Sir Neill Malcolm, the League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, who appealed to the Czechoslovak Premier, tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy. "We Czechs are determined once and for all that there shall be no repetition of what we have suffered on the grounds of 'German minority questions'" the Premier-General told the High Commissioner...