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...coveted office, he retains that rank. But Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...
Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting...
Shaggy, clumsy, easy-going sheep dogs can put up a terrific fight when attacked and every Englishman knows how much like a .sheep dog is the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., P.C., whilom Prime Minister (1924-29), still Leader of the Conservative Party. Last week Mr. Baldwin began a political dogfight with two of the loudest snarlers in all Britain: the "Press Lords ' Viscount Rothermere and Baron Beaverbrook, famed "Hearsts of England" (TIME Feb. 10). Tooth and nail they are fighting to tear leadership of the Conservative Party from Mr. Baldwin. Major significance was lent to this combat last...
This adder sting touched off Sir Austen Chamberlain, be-monocled, correct and supremely supercilious Peace Prizeman (1926), whilom British Foreign Minister. Wagging a bony forefinger at the Chancellor he cried in shocked protest: "That remark in its tone and temper stands alone in the records of the House! The Right Honorable Gentleman is always ready to impute motives of such a character to the opposition and he has caused 300 gentlemen to sit up all night, not to do business, but for his own satisfaction...
...devastating paragraph the whilom Lord High Chancellor revealed that Scientist Haldane is a man with a past, a past in which he once obscurely wrote these damning words: Any paper on pure science becomes the property of the whole world the moment it is published...