Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since he became Prime Minister, businesslike Neville Chamberlain has shown he meant to clean up what he considers the mess his predecessor Stanley-Baldwin made of British foreign policy. It was Stanley Baldwin's idea in 1935 to equip Great Britain in effect with two foreign secretaries: 1) a popular young idealist who could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs...
Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...
...terrier trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become the people's choice. Before John Bates made his style-setting choice, the dogs judged best in every breed were pitted against one another in six semifinal contests...
...from the burlesque business he had made his pile. At 72 he still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust got its name during a Chicago stockyards investigation, trouped...
Coal prices to railroads which buy in bulk have always been substantially lower than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused...