Word: chamberlaine
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...Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year-old Milquetoast Minister of Transport, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, one uninhibited Laborite shouted the unexpressed sentiment...
...many as 20 different languages in one day's interviews. But as an administrator he was constantly damned last week with the faint word "capable." He has been an M. P. since 1929, Minister of Transport since 1937. Best guess as to the reason for the choice: Neville Chamberlain chose a second-rate man to please business interests, who will be irked by the whole idea, would be doubly irked if an energetic man were put in charge...
...British and French Governments would normally regard the date of Spain's victory parade as El Caudillo's own private little matter. But long ago Dictator Benito Mussolini solemnly promised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Italian soldiers would be withdrawn from Spain as soon as the war was over. When the last Loyalist citadel was captured, the British waited a discreet time, then reminded II Duce of his sworn word...
...European history closely and anxiously. Not so familiar to them is the history of the period immediately before it-the sequence of post-War settlements, conferences, treaties that began when the Armistice was signed. Briand with his drooping lips and shaggy head, Stresemann with his dueling scars, Sir Austen Chamberlain with his monocle, his glassy stare and elegance of dress, are names in history books for high-school students, dim recollections for those students' parents...
...Newbold Grace, cw cw, Ferguson Waters cw cw, Hindley Kenigsberg, lw lw, Boyd Goff, hb hb, Richardson Osgood, hb hb, Jesser Strong, f f, Bertram Dibble, f f,Cathless Counihan, f f,Pyne Martin, f f, Holsapple Ditz,f f,Forsch Harkness, f f, Bickle Hardenbergh,f f, Chamberlain Riggs, f f, Cook Score-Harvard 11, Princeton 0.Trys-Martin, Goff. Conversion-Colwell. Penalty goal-Colwell. Referee-Robert Marsh. Time-35 minute periods...