Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
When the round-faced, squat Prime Minister arrived in Washington he went to the Canadian Legation and saw the press before going to the White House-a procedure that allowed him to be franker with newshawks than if he had seen them afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency...
...popular mind, not only King Edward's determination to marry Mrs. Simpson but also his declaration that "something must be done" for the Depressed Areas of the United Kingdom set the Baldwin Cabinet against His Majesty, led to his abdication (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.) Last week the Prime Minister did what he could to evaporate this popular view by submitting to the House of Commons a White Paper intended to "do something" for the Depressed Areas and based in great part on the advice of Sir Malcolm Stewart. It was he whom King Edward summoned just before leaving...
...Continent Mr. Eden's words were taken as a declaration no less ringing and personally sincere than he made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political Cartoonist Low merrily drew First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain resealing the Prime Minister...
...heartiest laugh in which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has indulged in many a long day came as Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip, a great churchman who received his appointment in part because of the influence of churchly Mrs. Baldwin, arose to address the House of Commons. Although it contains both male & female M. P.'s the Prime Minister could not avoid bursting into a loud guffaw as Sir Thomas, a tyro at politics but a veteran speaker at Sunday-school picnics, opened an address to the House of Commons with the unheard-of salutation: "Ladies and Gentlemen...