Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daladier-Chamberlain combination, in point of direct effect upon Europe and the World, cannot be matched...
...successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. As one of the few French statesmen the British really understand and admire and trust, he was most welcome. Since Great Britain and France are now, allied in a war whose severest engagements have been, and may continue to be, on economic fronts...
...telephoned Franco, Hitler, Chamberlain and Lebrun. - Recent U. S. citizens: Cinemactresses Luise Rainer, Marlene Dietrich, Dominic Mussolini, second cousin to Benito...
...columnist on the Manchester Guardian asked old George Bernard Shaw if he had sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on his escape from the Bürgerbraü bombing. Shaw said he had not, but that Chamberlain should have wired Hitler: "Greatly as the British nation regrets your escape, decency obliges the British Government to congratulate...
...still-smarting convalescent from the occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London was whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton...