Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's representative, the governor general of the Irish Free State, sat reading the papers in his suburban cottage outside Dublin. At the U. S. legation Minister William Wallace McDowell buckled on a very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
Raiding parties of French police, each one accompanied by a magistrate, descended on the homes of seven junk dealers. Only two of the raids were productive. In suburban St.-Ouen police found 50 rifles and automatic pistols, and a table drawer full of cartridges in the home of Leopold Dancart, "collector." Even so the Dancart Collection was not what it was in 1926 when police ferreted out 350 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition and a few machine guns. In the junkshop of one Beranger Gruyer police found 27 automatic pistols...
Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
SACRIFICE-Norah C. James-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy...
...Adrien Bonnefoy-Sibour, former Prefect of the suburban Department of Seine et Oise became the new prefect of police, popped quickly into the blue-papered office...