Word: welshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell's trial made its Philadelphia debut at Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling's Baptist Temple, drew a crowd of 3,500. The jurists who presided were George A. Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does whenever possible, Dr. Russell played prosecuting attorney. Dr. Russell and his audience were content to have Alcohol defended by Dr. Virgil P. Brock, Dr. Russell's associate, an evangelist. Called by Dr. Russell "as strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should...
...which belonged to the Duke of Windsor (see p. 27) when he was Duke of Cornwall, and Her Royal Highness christened at Devonport the cruiser Gloucester. The King & Queen came vigorously through a three-day tour of Yorkshire, not making the constitutional mistake Edward VIII made when he toured Welsh slums as King, provocatively exclaimed: "Something must be done for Wales!' (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). Inspecting last week a municipal housing development at Shiregreen, Their Majesties conversed democratically with a haggard housewife who told of tribulations since her husband lost his job five years ago. Queen Elizabeth cried...
Last week, in the brooding eloquence that springs so naturally from his Welsh heritage, John L. Lewis declared: "Out of the agony and travail of economic America the C. I. O. was born. To millions of Americans, exploited without stint by corporate industry and socially debased beyond the understanding of the fortunate, its coming was as welcome as the dawn to the night watcher. . . . It is now and henceforth a definite instrumentality destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal course of the Republic...
...plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash with regularity," duplicated for the Irish and Welsh the dirty deals his family had received...
...river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a brigade of mixed infantry and cavalry consisting principally of British and U. S. clerks and White Russian emigres...