Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communications. Sir Charles Coupar Barrie is a Tory M.P. for Southampton, a director of $150,000,000 Cable and Wireless, Ltd. But he is also on the board of big Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., which controls eleven subsidiary insurance companies; of Santa Rosa Milling Co., Ltd., which has Chilean and Peruvian subsidiaries; of London & Northeastern Railway Co., Central Argentine Railway Ltd., the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., Crown Flour Mills, Ltd., United Baltic Corp., Ltd., of companies dealing in tobacco in Dublin, telegraph services in Africa...
...defenders of the Davis Cup this year is practically a foregone conclusion. It is for the other singles assignment and the doubles team that the country's hot shots will for the next four weeks engage in a free-for all on the hallowed grass at Seabright, Southampton, Rye and Newport...
...necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...
...first tee of a Southampton, L. I. golf links, former Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose form is picturesque, took a vicious swipe at the ball, missed, sprained his left foot...
...England their subjects were preparing to show them how glad they were to have them back. Planes and more battleships will meet them at sea to escort them into Southampton. A five-car special will whisk them to London, where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside...