Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...
...Died. Sir James Agg-Gardner, 82, oldest member of the British House of Commons, last of Disraeli's M. P. contemporaries, famed for his 54 years of silence in the House (broken by only two speeches) ; of heart disease; in London. As head of the House catering department, he supervised daily "tea on the terrace," was affably known as "Minister of the Interior...
...SIR ROBERT PEEL-A. A. W. Ramsay- Dodd, Mead...
...life was so hated and reviled was ever so lamented and honored at his death.' " Hated in life for his stern unfriendliness, reviled for advocating measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal...
...told what he would do if he were president: "Get Henry Ford to serve in my cabinet . . . call out the army and navy, yes sir, and I'd close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...