Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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 the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed . . ." No such blunderbuss phrase...
...always been announced by His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, had always contained the hallowed words: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase: "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General of Australia. That the King-Emperor would perform what had been...
...rabble that "[God] . . . hath made of one blood all nations . . ." (Acts 18:26), some disbelieved. So did an unnamed Jew dying in London last week for lack of blood transfusion. Resolutely he preferred to die rather than let Gentile blood, available on the spot, sully the blood of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob...
...alumni, some have done decidedly well. Among them: President Chester Irving Barnard of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University, Headmaster James Isaac Wendell of The Hill School, Radioman Lee De-Forest, Actor Glenn Hunter...
...best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard Shaw, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Birkenhead, Winston Churchill, Dean Inge. He has written more than 50 books. Some of them: Tono Bungay, The History of Mr. Polly, The Wife of Sir Isaac Barman, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Tales of Space and Time, Anticipations, New Worlds for Old, God the Invisible King, The Outline of History...