Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Despite the pleas of his wife, Bloomfield persisted in browsing on the village green. Finally, after stuffing himself, was taken with violent bellyache, was rushed to a hospital. He died soon afterward. Coroner's verdict: "death by misadventure...
...from Dutch and Belgian ports taken fortnight ago, from Norwegian beachheads taken in April, and perhaps from Eire, where beachheads might be established with the quisling connivance of the Irish Republican Army. Experts expected landing parties to concentrate on the southeast lowlands of England-Kent, the Thames valley, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk-with diversions in the Scottish lowlands and in Wales, for the invasion's main target would be the munitions-making Midlands. This plan has been openly recommended by Ewald Banse, professor of military science at Brunswick Technological Institute, whose writings have great weight in Nazi war councils...
...waves of the ocean would be the waves of German bombers-heavy, light and dive-which would precede the sea ferries and air-troop transports. Professor Banse long ago recommended Norfolk-Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
Britons "put down" (i.e., destroyed) over 500,000 pets, mostly cats and dogs, rather than see them die horribly in air raids. The immediate result was a plague of rats and mice. Anti-rat drives were last month organized throughout Great Britain. In Saxmundham, Suffolk, an anti-rat conference revealed that the rector of neighboring Middleton has to keep his radio going full blast to drown out the sounds of gnawing and squeaking...
Despite contradictory reports by Boston papers and Jerome D. Greene '04, Secretary to the Corporation, the University is concerned with the litigation over the will of Carolyn J. Adams, now being protested in the Suffolk County Probate Court...