Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...Fascists to riot their heads off, smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
...plum-The Foreign Secretaryship-had to go to the man who has put through Parliament this year a measure which has necessitated Parliamentary reports and documents amounting to 20 times the length of Holy Bible: the India Bill of tall, dapper, aquiline, baldish Sir Samuel Hoare. So dubious are the merits of this measure that it has been dubbed "the Hoarefrost," but as Secretary of State for India since 1931 Sam Hoare put it through, and no other British statesman has recently done anything so big. Why Sir Sam should not now be made Prime Minister, on the theory that...
...choicest plum for a U. S. art student who is unmarried and not over 30 is the Prix de Rome. It gives the winner two idyllic years at the American Academy in Rome, is worth about $4,000. In 1912 one of the winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured...
...unexpected stroke for Mellon's contention that he will really give the U. S. his great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...