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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entourage for his friend Mr. MacDonald sent along on the Rodney two M.P.'s and two Members of the House of Lords. One of the latter was peppery Baron Newton who, in a recent furious attack upon the Labor Government for recognizing Russia, called Bolsheviks "un attractive animals which, like boa constrictors and alligators, accept food, only to show their ingratitude by swallowing their keepers" (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Millenary | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...hoped that Baron Newton, out of gratitude for the fun of riding to Ice land and back on the Rodney, will not attack the Prime Minister's policies quite so furiously in future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Millenary | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Died. Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel (with Newton Diehl Baker) for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the projected Youngstown-Bethlehem steel merger ; despondent over litigation against the merger (TIME, March 24 et seq.) and the strain of negotiations; by his own hand; at Youngstown, Ohio. Court was declared adjourned until July 8 "for good and sufficient reasons." Declared David G. Jenkins, trial judge: "A valuable piece in the chess game [has been] removed from the board. So far as the law suit is concerned and cold as it may seem to say it, the contest must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...civic luncheon was scheduled to begin the opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rail Week | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unamunity | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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