Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Would Fight!" As debate on the White Paper opened in the House of Commons this week, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain digressed to rebuke all who think he is not for the League of Nations (see p. 17), then explained that Britain is "spending till it hurts" to build up "almost terrifying power." This "will not be used for aggression" he promised, will have "a sobering effect on world public opinion." Until the United Kingdom is secure, the Dominions, he hinted, could fend for themselves, be rescued later...
...done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and her fiancé of two weeks, sandy-haired, 35-year-old Norman Ridgley, village handy man. The telephone call meant they had been quietly married...
When her father left No. 10 Downing Street, Ishbel decided to employ her servants in the 17th-Century inn at Speen. Hard by Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, the Plow became a stopping place for tourists who came to see the former hostess of No. 10 handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts...
...feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
Last week a onetime Scripps-Howard writer, Forrest Davis, published a luckily-timed biography of Roy Howard in the Satevepost. Said he: "Scripps serves as king, with final power of yea and veto. Roy Howard is the prime minister, ruling boldly, conspicuously, restlessly, but only with Scripps's consent...