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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory & Defeat | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vansittart & Honors | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Government at election time, remains Foreign Secretary, sound Sir Robert was thus given the widest conceivable authority and mobility in conducting British foreign policy. Technically he will still be subordinate to Mr. Eden, advising the Foreign Secretary only on request, but the terms of the new appointment show that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to use Sir Robert much as President Roosevelt uses Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to, handle big diplomatic jobs wherever they crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vansittart & Honors | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Seldom in any country does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God, King, and Nation | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...concluded: "In what other country could it happen that the Prime Minister, the Minister of War and the Minister of Foreign Affairs could allow their staffs to be executed as spies and traitors without daring to defend them or without taking some share in the responsibility in what they are alleged to have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bolshevik Barmine | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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