Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously Mr. Hull announced at a State Department press conference and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced to the House of Commons that a U. S.-British reciprocal trade agreement, after a year of pourparlers in London and Washington, was at last ready to be hatched. Specifically, Mr. Hull asked all interested parties to submit to the State Department's Committee for Reciprocity Information by Dec. 16 their suggestions for bargaining. Thereafter formal notice of the negotiations together with a list of products to be discussed will be forthcoming...
...assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti-Communist pact (TIME, Nov. 15), King Leopold must discuss these vital matters with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. His Majesty must seek British assurances that Germany will get none of the Belgian Congo in any case. Especially if there is danger of war in Eastern Europe in the next few years, Leopold III and Mr. Chamberlain have every incentive to try to get signed...
...their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized as a traitor to the nation...
...Federal Power Commission, argued that the New Deal's power policy had proven fair and constructive because "the power industry showed a record of the greatest production and consumption in its history for the year ended July 31, 1937." To that the I. B. A. delegates, whose prime interest in power is selling power securities, retorted: The New Deal's attitude had held up some $3,200,000,000 of private utility spending for needed expansion-money which would have flowed into new construction had it not been for the industry's fear for the future...
Yale's performance against Princeton, a 26-0 win, to say nothing of the fact of Clint Frank's four touchdowns, one on the first play, gives Harvard little reason to relax during the coming week. Yale appears to be right in the prime and to have used the Princeton game as a great warming-up skirmish...