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Word: chamberlaine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Inner Cabinet confidant, Sir John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt the bowler-hatted businessmen of London's "City." He mobilized the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange to impose "Simon's unofficial ban" on British buying of U. S. securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Buy British | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Hartford, Conn. Eli Goldston Barbara Cohen, Brookline Richard W. Greenebaum Bernadetta Handrahan, Brockton Roger C. Griffin Jr. Eleanor Mastin, Needham Ralph W. Grover Carol Spahr, Bellerose David Hadden Katharine Claflin, Belmont William F. Haneman Elizabeth Breed, Chestnut Hill Arthur S. Harrison Louise Stickler, Hartford, Conn. Melvin S. Hathaway Margaret Chamberlain, Hartford, Conn. David Hodgdon Edith Russell, Boston Guy, Holman Bulah Ratliff, New York John W. Huling Barbara Sherry, Worcester Morton B. Jackson Mary Brown, Cleveland Richard Jackson Martha Turner, Cambridge William P. Jacobs Alice Corregan, West Roxbury Marc Jaffe Marjorie Walker, Philadelphia Webster N. Jones Edith Small, Chestnut Hill Albert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...conspiring to intimidate Editor Ewald into silencing his anti-lottery campaign. Sam B. Powe, Mobile's lottery king and ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to seven years in prison, his fellow conspirators to terms ranging from 18 months to five years. Their convictions will be appealed. Solicitor Chamberlain was acquitted, but resigned two days later. What had happened to honest, courageous, but perverted Editor Ewald, no one in Mobile knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Mobile | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Conservative Women's Conference Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condescended: "Mrs. Chamberlain is the lady who knows all my secrets but never lets them out, who gently corrects my faults, who never forgets to praise me, who remembers all the things that I forget, and who, for now nearly 30 years, has been my best friend and counselor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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