Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would be approved...
...over the Reich because she can deduct German debts from the money Britons owe German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's present hopes of an Anglo-German appeasement, it was deemed stillborn...
...Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf, stubborn Ismet Inonii, persuaded him from ordering his soldiers to fire...
Eton, England's biggest (1,150 students), most expensive ($1,225 tuition), most exclusive "public" (i. e., private) school, today is on the defensive, abroad as well as at home. Traditional training ground for Britain's ruling "Gentlemen," it has produced ten Prime Ministers. One-sixth of the members of Commons are old Etonians. But in trade and government service, everywhere, except in Britain's Foreign Office, Etonians are being shouldered out by the products of more plebeian schools. Even those who cherish Eton's traditions most tenderly admit that Eton needs some reforms...
...collection of 122 pre-revolutionary and contemporary paintings and rare 18th to 18th-Century icons taken out of Russia after elaborate negotiations, insured for a reputed sum of $100,000 and called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing in the U. S. found the 96 paintings prime examples of colorful, realistic, popular art, ranging from Klavdii Labedev's classic The Fall of Novgorod, to almost photographic scenes of factory and peasant life by Soviet artists. Watching the reaction of Wisconsin students, Professor Oskar Frank L. Hagen, curator of the university's paintings, said they were "flabbergasted...