Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt had ample excuse to indulge, last week, in an honest, becoming sailor's blush. He will shortly have assigned to him as his flagship the new British post-Washington Treaty cruiser Suffolk. Strictly speaking the Suffolk, when empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably...
...Sir "Christopher Wren." Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...
...Sir Lee Stack was assassinated. Promptly the British government seized the Egyptian customs, asked, and received, indemnity. So the matter rested, apparently quiet, until the recent outbreak. That the fight for independence continues is demonstrated in the periodic stifling that the British apply to Egyptian politics. A few weeks ago an Egyptian cabinet resigned, unable to obtain its ends against British opposition. Today the same problem confronts the present government. Each successive ministry wants but one thing--Egyptian freedom...
...late Sir Mortimer B. Davis...
...handling of one-half of one per cent of the British & North Irish issue was as weighty as Albert Henry Wiggin's deal the week before. Mr. Wiggin's Chase Securities Corp. formed the $10,000,000 Finance Company of great Britain and America Ltd. with Sir Alfred Moritz Mond's Imperial Chemical Industries (TIME, April 23). Both transactions enable U. S. capital to flow to England, and thence farther afield...