Word: trenchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disarmament arguments and foreign exchange battles the British Cabinet was suddenly summoned to an emergency meeting in Downing Street last week. Reporters rushed over with their coattails flying. Was the National Government in danger? It was not. but the cause of the meeting was almost as vital. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton. had just published a report after 18 months in office as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. Over four years ago the British public was startled to learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty...
...said Lord Cecil, "I don't think that is practicable, although I am of the same opinion as Lord Trenchard that it is a great pity flying ever was invented...
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Herron More, wife of Dean Louis Trenchard More of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, sister of Mrs. Helen (William Howard) Taft, for whom she substituted more than once as the Land's First Lady; after long illness; in Cincinnati...
...Lord Trenchard does know all about airplanes. He was until last week Marshal of the Royal Air Force. In 1912 he taught himself to fly within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last...
...report a month and a half ago that crimes of violence were increasing alarmingly, and retired (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week Scotland Yard had a new police chief. Following the British tradition, the appointment was given to a man who had no previous police experience whatever, Hugh Montague, Baron Trenchard...