Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lose his throne. England can not have such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves...
Yesterday's editorial on Education of Harvard said that the prime function of a University is to teach its undergraduates, and that its second purpose must be a thorough contribution to the knowledge of the world through productive scholarship and intelligent research on the part of its faculty and graduate students. For this reason a balance between these two goals must be achieved, so that one aim does not obscure or act to the detriment of the other. Today at Harvard the art of teaching has been subordinated to the function of research, and the balance between the two should...
This was all the Archbishop, the Prime Minister and the Press Lords needed. Within 24 hours the crisis was all over the front pages and within ten days it was ended. That the Archbishop of Canterbury was largely responsible for dethroning a once idolized King was then very present in the minds of thousands of British subjects. But this realization had been well erased by last week...
...stories buzzed around London's newspaper offices last week. First, Publisher Elias did not get his title earlier because he once published in John Bull a birth certificate of onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to prove that MacDonald was illegitimate. Now that Mr. MacDonald is politically passe, he was no longer able to keep Mr. Elias out of the peerage. Second, Publisher Elias steered the Daily Herald away from the Duke of Windsor during the Simpson crisis...
...Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers, but provisions are broad enough to exclude alcoholic imports from other States...