Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday Mrs. Simpson traveled to Versailles in the King's car and stayed with her American friend Lady Mendl. Oxford, always conservative, thinks the whole affair is a bad show but does not reproach the King. The general comment is "Ship Mrs. Simpson back home...
...Yale undergraduate opinion favorable though not enthusiastic about Ivy League, but university officials in general are opposed and stress complications as difficulty in enforcing uniform entrance and eligibility requirements and scholarship grants. Yale athletic director Malcolm Farmer unprepared to comment yet, as is President James R. Angell but they were both opposed in the Fall of 1934, when President Gates of Pennsyl...
...twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson, premises of the Church of England and one of its pastors should be provided or withheld. To this United Press report, the Associated Press added that suggestions of abdication by His Majesty to marry Mrs. Simpson were welcomed by some of Their Lordships with the comment, "Then let him abdicate, by all means, and let's get on with the Duke and Duchess of York"-i.e., as King & Queen...
Awarded. To Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and onetime publisher; and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Argentine Foreign Minister: Nobel Peace Prizes for 1935 and 1936; in Oslo, Norway. Ailing in a Berlin hospital after spending three years in Nazi concentration camps, von Ossietzky declined to comment on his award, which infuriated Adolf Hitler...
...country's foremost research psychiatrist, Dr. Adolf Meyer, was called on for comment. Said he: "I am not antagonistic to this work. I find it very interesting. . . . I, too, have hesitations at the thought of a great many of us having our distractibility or our worries removed. To call attention to these operations may start such an epidemic...