Word: lindley
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's end the choice had been made. The next British Ambassador to Washington will be Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, 59, since 1938 Britain's Foreign Secretary...
...came up with an 11 to 0 conquest with Hal Tighhnan leading the attack with three tallies. Kirkland was defeated by Dudley 4 to 1 in a thrilling match. In the final feature of the program Eliot eked out a 4 to 3 win from Lowell. Lindley Burton chalked up all the Belboy markers, while for Eliot, Gordon Lyle passed the goalie twice and Fred Herter's score in the final minutes of play spelled victory for Eliot...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Landlubber Josephus Daniels. But that was the great formative period of his life. It was then that he had discovered his moving principle: action. Do something. If that fails, do something else. Always action; inaction is conservatism, stagnation, unAmerican. Biographer Ernest Lindley described his as "the type of mind to which little is impossible and nothing inevitable." To be a great President he would have to try and try again for national unity of purpose, letting disagreements over details, methods, means fall where they might. He had long ago learned the prime...
...most interesting matches thus far have been Lindley Burton's upset victory over Russ Ellis, former first man on his Freshman team, and Bart Harvey's win over Don Daniels of last year's Yardling aggregation...
Safely returned to Congress were Senator Tom Connally, Representatives Martin Dies, Wright Patman, Richard Kleberg, Sam Rayburn and Lindley Beckworth, 27-year-old "Baby of Congress...