Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Julian Codman, Bos ton lawyer, longtime foe of Prohibition, an early director in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Col. Codman. 60, is a Harvardman. He served with the A. E. F. in the Quarter masters Department. In 1924-26 he was attached to the Judge Advocate General's Department. He has twice represented the combined anti-Prohibition societies at Congressional hearings. In him the Crusaders hope to find the counterpart of Director Henry Hastings Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...TIME, Aug. 25). When Charles T. Grain, New York County's district attorney and a Tammany man, failed to get an indictment in the Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover all New York court officers but found that the State treasury would issue appropriation only for the Ewald case...
...avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies. Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, Bolivar crossed the Andes in midwinter. Washington...
...Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that he altered...
...headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted...