Word: arthurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ARTHUR K. GRUNDLE...
...bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked why the new Soviet Ambassador had not been received. Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson scowled...
...delay is entirely our fault," said he enigmatically, "not his." What "Uncle Arthur" meant, what every M. P. and most well-informed Londoners knew, was that the delay was really the fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George...
That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions...
Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...