Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...
...Subjected Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to polite badgering about the main naval issue over which the United States and the United Kingdom have for 14 years been at odds. Britain, which has many naval bases, seeks an international treaty to hold all navies down to small-sized short-ranged warboats. The U. S., having fewer naval bases, seeks an international treaty permitting all navies to have large-sized, long-ranged warboats. Last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition argued that the obvious and fair solution is for the U. S. to enter a treaty limiting all navies to small...
...Randall Thompson '20. Markevitch is a young Russian now resident in Paris whose only vocal work, the "Cantate", is to be performed in part by the Glee Club. The other modernist, Randall Thompson, is a Harvard graduate and recent lecturer in these parts, whose latest composition, "The Peaceable Kingdom", in receiving its initial performance by the joint chorus on Tuesday evening...
...Strongly condemned by resolution, homework for school children in the United Kingdom after its rigors had been movingly conjured up by a Labor M. P. who climaxed, "So I asked my eldest boy about this homework only this morning and he said, 'Father, the House of Commons should consider this slavery at home instead of the slavery in Ethiopia!'" ¶Raised a question so delicate that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden did not trust himself to reply verbally. The question: Is there any international convention which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from...
...measured accents before a hushed House of Commons last week, Sir Austen charged that the Cabinet's "thinking machine" does not seem to be working properly, and that in consequence the safety of the United Kingdom has been endangered. Since Mr. Baldwin, as Prime Minister, is also President of the Council of Imperial Defense, it was no bunch of roses which Sir Austen threw when he said: "Very reluctantly I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible in the present circumstances for the Prime Minister to be the effective head of the Imperial Defense Committee...