Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Cabinet split on a fundamental issue, with more newspapers than ever striking out against the Government, with more M. P.s than ever distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
WASHINGTON--Former Sen. Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire, burly, red-faced New Dealer and fee of public utilities, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be Comptroller General, one of the most powerful positions in the government service...
President Conant will be the principal speaker at the seventy-fifth anniversary graduation of the University of Kansas, it was announced yesterday. Because the University in its early days was built up by Amos H. Lowell, a former Harvard University Treasurer, Kansas is stressing the Harvard motif in their graduation plans...
LONDON--Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty said tonight that United States sympathy probably would lead to "active American cooperation" on Britain's side in event...
Publisher Gannett was absent. Toastmaster was his good friend-bald, shrewd Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd, former president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Heyd sounded the theme of the meeting: doctors and businessmen must form a political alliance against the New Deal. Chief speakers were Dr. Emerson, who delivered his stock arguments, the committee's treasurer, Sumner W. Gerard, who claimed that the New Deal was out to rook doctors for the sake of a "piece of cheese," and defeated Democratic Congressman Samuel Pettengill of Indiana, who delivered a full-throated 1940 campaign speech...