Word: woodhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under Sir John Woodhead to restudy the partition proposals...
Last week the Woodhead Commission issued its conclusions. A Babel of contradictions and reservations, this report submitted two new partition schemes and in the same breath admitted it was impossible to divide the country into satisfactory economic, political, racial units. His Majesty's Government there on abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should...
...breaking through the windows and holding parties of another character entirely, he notified the Beverly Hills police. When the police began grilling the youngsters last week, first to break down were Barbara Page, Marjorie Folsom and Vallee Rice, all 16. Much of what they told Deputy District Attorney Florence Woodhead seemed to that bespectacled prosecutor "too flaming to repeat." One night eleven couples were lined up waiting in the hall outside the two bedrooms. "Speed" Morgan was accused of plying Barbara Page with liquor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Guest Elwood Jackson, 19, went a step further...
...hard-hitting British Editor Henry George Wandesfdrde Woodhead of the Peking & Tientsin Times started a campaign in which he "questioned"-to use his own mild fighting word-the advisability of Britain's continuing to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to Chinese Education. Editor Woodhead recently recalled in Oriental Affairs: "China at that time was already experiencing considerable trouble from the insubordination of her students, and it hardly seemed credible that purposes mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain would be realized by adding enormously to the number of higher educational institutions...
...wisdom of these thoughts prevailed in London, and the British Boxer Indemnity Trustees accordingly have aided Premier Chiang to complete a railway each of whose 700 miles may be regarded as representing just so many less Chinese students. In Oriental Affairs suave Editor Woodhead led the way for editors in the British Empire generally to call the completed railway "a gift from the British taxpayer to the Chinese people...