Word: viceroy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same Middle East deserts where centuries later Field Marshal Wavell rode with Allenby. Wavell of Cyrenaica was the one-eyed professional soldier, author and poet who smashed the Italians in North Africa (1940) only to lose to Rommel, who commanded Singapore until it fell (1942), governed India as viceroy (1943-47). His fate had been to fight the early delaying actions when Britain was behind. Fighting for the Empire, he had lost an eye; his son had lost a hand in World War II. The son died last week unmarried and childless-the last of the Wavell line. The title...
...filter will be bucking some heavy competition. Though the filter cigarettes sold last year (close to 5 billion) were only 1.1% of total U.S. consumption, they were 58% more than in 1951, and sales this year are running at least double those of 1952. Brown & Williamson's Viceroy, the only one priced at only a penny or so more than regular cigarettes, recently came out in king size (80 mm. v. 75 mm.), filter and all, proved so popular that B. & W. has not been able to keep up with demand. Viceroy, which sold 2.7 billion cigarettes last year...
Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians...
Died. Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, 64, Viceroy of India for a record 6½ years (1936-43); of coronary thrombosis while shooting game on his estate near South Queensferry, Scotland. An old-fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional...
...confused with Emir Feisal, viceroy of Hejaz, second son of King Ibn Saud...