Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising His Majesty to appoint as Governor General an Old Etonian, something no Dominion today cares to stomach...
...whole thing is on the knees of the gods," sighed Mr. Eden as he returned to London. Anxious friends thought the old Etonian looked as tired as after his encounters with Hitler and Stalin which put him to bed for a month (TIME, April 1). Just before leaving Paris last week he summed up his conversations with Premier Laval despondently thus: "Oh, we discussed what should be done next, now that what has been done has been done...
Last week Editor Mussolini opened up full blast to boom his aggressive designs against Ethiopia and blast Great Britain for opposing them at Geneva in the person of that sleek Etonian Peaceman, Captain Anthony Eden (TIME, June...
...Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...
...will be appointed to head that section of the Ministry of Health, Manchester's Liberal Guardian grew enthusiastic: "This step saves the Government from the unpleasant necessity of demanding Sir Edward Hilton Young's resignation." Says Santa Sir E. with the incorrigible stiffness of a Nelsonian Old Etonian: "The nation's help will be given in no ungenerous spirit to effect a permanent raising of our standard of civilization...