Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Result was a queer, behind-the-scenes friendship struck up between the Mahatma, whose prestige was to ebb slowly away thereafter, and Sir Samuel Hoare, who was to give the 350,000,000 souls of India a new Constitution, the longest measure ever enacted by the Mother of Parliaments (TIME, Aug. 12). In putting through this immensely complicated charter against bitter opposition led by brilliant Winston Churchill and grim Lloyd George, the aim of sagacious Sir Samuel was to make a vast number of decisions as wisely as possible and get them fastened irrevocably upon India, rather than to mull...
...definite liability for losses through negligence. But the combined skill of lawyers representing the borrower, the banker and the trustee (but never the investor) have reduced the duties of corporate trusteeship to a few clerical motions, the liabilities to virtually nothing. Moreover, SEC found that "subtle influences of friendship and business relations" tended to make the trustee "a timid and ineffectual representative of security holders...
...Dora H. Stockman read a poem she had dedicated to A. C. W. W. Last verse: Great God of all the nations, We come a mighty throng With hand clasped hand in greeting We sing a glorious song. A prayer for faith and courage, Peace and friendship's flag unfurled From the homes of every country, Country Women of the World...
...each other. . . . If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... I feel this so keenly that if I survive this ordeal I shall devote what is left of my life largely to trying to help further the friendship of my country with other nations of the world...
...services in St. Margaret's Church, London, Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, canon of St. John's Cathedral of Providence, R. I., longtime (1919-33) warden of St. Stephen's College, made headlines by declaring: "Let us not be too sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling in America but there...