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Word: stillingfleet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his chest expanding under a livid blue shirt Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, patriotic Conservative M. P., proudly surveyed last week 20,000 seething, applauding Britons whom he had summoned to London's mammoth Albert Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blue Shirts & Blood | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned a nationwide appeal; the Society of British Aircraft Constructors assumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Schneider Race Saved | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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