Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty King George VI of England has awarded the coveted Order of Merit to Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, emeritus and senior fellow of the Society of Fellows, the British Consulate General's Office announced yesterday. Whitehead taught philosophy at Harvard from...
King George VI celebrated his 49th birthday? by giving the first dance at Buckingham Palace since World War II began?a birthday ball with 100 invited guests and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, attending their first ball in London...
...streets to cheer the final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an enemy who never came, finally "stood down" last week in a blaze of glory and gratitude. From the Home Guard's Colonel in Chief, King George VI, came a solemn tribute: "... A force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who called the Guard to arms when the Germans were just across the "drink" and likely to come over any day: "Britain will never forget that in our dark hour, when your...
...numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true 50,000th issue. For the occasion it devoted several columns and an editorial to itself, printed two columns of tributes from King George VI, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, many another Empire bigwig...
...Loan VI will be the toughest one yet to sell. Even so, said Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, its $14,000,000,000 goal is set far too low. It will pay for less than two months of war. Franklin Roosevelt released a whopping figure as proof: the war is now costing the U.S. $250,000,000 a day. Said Secretary Morgenthau: there will eventually have to be a War Loan...