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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads...
...hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative old William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933 et seq.). Last week another potent Roman Catholic Churchman, Cincinnati's Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas, administered to Father Coughlin another unofficial rebuke...
...Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily downhill, due, he believes, to the New Deal's rural electrification program and to the fact that his competitors call him a "jailbird...
...Buckingham Palace last week Queen Mary awaited King Edward. Ready for His Majesty too was a multi-volume Scotland Yard dossier pasted up out of clippings to show what the World press thought of the King's yachting trip (TIME, Aug. 17 et seq.). Ready to be promptly received in audience last week was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, just let out of quarantine after passing several weeks at home with chicken pox. Ready were prominent Jewish friends of Edward VIII to exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence...