Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glasse wrote on official Foreign Office stationery a letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
...House of Commons this week the Labor Party made the Glasse indiscretion the spearhead of their drive for a motion of censure against the Prime Minister, demanding a British General Election...
With the official adoption of an anti-Don Quixote policy by the Prime Minister last week, it becomes the duty of Major Ramsbotham and other Conservative leaders to popularize it with the British masses. The engaging twinkle behind the monocle was working overtime last week as Orator Ramsbotham made headlines and scored chuckles all over the United Kingdom with a speech in which he referred to Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria thus...
...Transamerica never confined its holdings to banks. It has a portfolio of listed common stocks. And it controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. Indeed, insurance, a business which is not unlike banking in that it is largely concerned with the collection and investment of savings, has long been a prime Giannini interest. The Gianninis bid unsuccessfully for big Pacific Mutual when it got in a rness year and a half...
...prime talking point of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Group has been that it works equally well in the framework of any Christian church-not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic...