Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the curtain came down and the public swept in. While the choir sang and trumpets blew and the organ pealed a solemn procession moved up the aisle. Proudly at its head in stiff blue suits and immaculate collars walked 100 workmen who had completed this great task, followed the Lord Mayor with his sheriffs in medieval costume, and 200 bishops. Next entered King George and Queen Mary who had come in semi-state from Temple Bar escorted by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor. Behind them with military medal on their peaceful white surplices marched a delegation...
...London the press naturally took a favorable tone toward Sir John Simon's well meant and laboriously conceived recommendations for giving India a mite more freedom-all except the Daily Herald, news organ closest to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. This paper recalled that in 1927, when the Simon Commission was organized, Scot MacDonald, then out of office, prophesied: "The Simon Report will give 1,000 reasons for just a little more tutelage." According to the Herald this prophecy has now been fulfilled...
...cabinet session some days later Il Duce announced that Italy will spend $26,000,000 extra this year on armaments, an "answer to France" which Le Temps of Paris, semi-official organ of the French Government, "answered back" with an editorial furiously flaying the Mussolini brothers but concluding "war against Italy would be . . most absurd...
...Treaty's friends was a load of British praise which fell last week upon Admiral William Veazie Pratt, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, as one of the few U. S. Navy men to support the pact. In London the Naval & Military Record, semi-official organ of the British Admiralty, declared...
Last week in London the huge Liberal Daily News (circulation: 600,000) swallowed its last great Liberal competitor, the even huger Daily Chronicle (circulation: 1,000,000), onetime organ of David Lloyd George, onetime employer of Reporters James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Gibbs. Appeared the Daily News & Chronicle, to be administered by five trustees: Lord Cowdray, Henry Tylor Cadbury, Walter Thomas Layton, B. H. Binder, J. C. Akerman...