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This touched off the House's angriest, most random debate of the year upon great issues. Pacifist George Lansbury, who recently talked with Adolf Hitler, seemed to fear the British lion was about to spring upon the German lamb. He wailed: "How many times will you crush the German people?" The Leipzig incident fired belligerent Sir Archibald Sinclair, M. P., to make a fiery speech, at the climax of which he cried: "Remember the Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tantrums Into Triumphs? | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...already had a warning of his temper. Aboard his special train as it rolled up from the South day before, he had volunteered to newshawks the information that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fighting Clothes | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...will not only be killed but tortured to make you human." This remarkable threat, scrawled anonymously on the stationery of a Houston, Tex. hotel, was received in Washington last week by John P. Frey, pedantic president of A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department and angriest Labor foe of John L. Lewis' C. I. O. Mr. Frey boldly announced that he would go right ahead with his plan, to head up a mass meeting in Houston this week: start an A. F. of L. oil organizing drive in competition with the C. I. O. campaign which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the March | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies to a twice-divorced woman the fighting words "damaged goods." "Sir," ultimatums Mr. Baldwin, "there is no question that Parliament and the Cabinet as well will be in complete agreement on preferring your abdication to your marriage to Mrs. Simpson." Edward VIII takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...gets good & mad. She was horrified by the War, and when she began to realize it was probably not the last great war she would have to live through, her anger began to grow. What she felt about the situation and its prospects she told in the angriest book she has written. No Time Like the Present (TIME, June 26, 1933). Since then, the world situation has hardly changed for the better, and Storm Jameson's horrified anger has hardly cooled. Last summer it was still hot enough to make her write (in two months) this bitter account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In England, Too | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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