Word: trenchard
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Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...
...been hit. On British ports had fallen 17,000,000 pounds of bombs, and 700 raids had concentrated on airdromes. The British, for their part, admitted some damage to factories. But they claimed that plants planned by farsighted Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard were just now getting into full production, so that the net loss was nil. Somewhere between the two opposing claims lay the truth...
...same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls each nation like each individual to its highest destiny...
...Flemington, defense counsel lost no time announcing that it would appeal on 16 points including Judge Thomas Whitaker Trenchard's "misleading" charge to the jury...
...judge ever won wider approval for conducting a trial with dignity and fairness than solemn, paternal Judge Trenchard. The A. B. A. committee report does not imply otherwise, is more concerned with the antics which go on outside the courtroom and beyond the judge's normal jurisdiction. To keep trials decent outside as well as inside, the report concludes: "This committee is clear that if local bar associations would resolutely enforce the obvious and known requirements of the code of professional ethics upon the lawyers who are subject to the disciplinary actions of the Bar, a very substantial part...