Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then...
...Chief accomplishment of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government was to persuade the London Committee on Non-Intervention to accept the new British plan for withdrawing foreign volunteers and cutting the flow of munitions to both sides in the Spanish Civil War. The Prime Minister's satisfaction was short-lived however as both Liberals and Laborites tied into him, subjected him to a two-day tongue lashing in the House of Commons such as he had not experienced since he took office year...
Current convention for producers of Shaw plays is to dress up the protagonist in whiskers to resemble George Bernard Shaw. Thus disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium...
...Arthur gives what Author Shaw apparently considers convincing evidence of a cerebral reawakening by proposing a benevolent dictatorship, including nationalization of banks, property and labor. The Prime Minister's brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break...
...from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound...