Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manufacturers was proclaiming its new-found passion to cooperate with the New Deal in Manhattan last week (see p. 49) the Council for Industrial Progress, called by President Roosevelt's Coordinator for Industrial cooperation, met in Washington with not a single top-notch business leader in attendance. Prime reason for Big Business' boycott of this first post-Election attempt to devise a substitute for NRA was that the Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation is big, smooth, hairy-fisted Major George Leonard Berry, who is also longtime president of International Pressmen and Assistants Union...
Whether the New Deal and its farmer friends would long be satisfied with such roundabout methods remained a prime question. Red-hot for revival of the AAAct, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, is the New Deal's most potent rural friend, the American Farm Bureau Federation. To its convention in Pasadena last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Good as [the AAAct] was, we want to see it improved upon. A better program can and will be built...
...anointing" of the King, as a newly created bishop is anointed-thus making him a persona mixta or "person of mixed nature," part layman, part priest. Queen Victoria was of the opinion that she was the head of the Church of England, virtually a female Pope. Although Prime Minister Gladstone gently dispelled this impetuous pretension (pointing out certain ambiguities in the Coronation ceremony), Her Majesty was far more right than she was wrong in the eyes of English churchgoers. The unspeakable dilemma in the case of Edward VIII in recent weeks has been: "Can there be consecrated, as a part...
...Times Square, behaved as follows at sight on the screen of: Prince Edward (cheers); Mrs. Simpson (cheers) ; her first husband Commander Spencer, U.S.N. (boos); her second and present husband Mr. Simpson (cheers & boos); the Archbishop of Canterbury (BOOS); new Crown Princess Elizabeth (boos); new King George & Queen Elizabeth (boos!); Prime Minister Baldwin (PROLONGED CATCALLS AND BOOS!); King Edward & Mrs. Simpson bathing in the Mediterranean (CHEERS...
...wife of Mr. Simpson. Who knows whether her decree of divorce will be made final next April or successfully contested? The right of the King to marry any woman, high or low, who is free and a Protestant, has not been challenged by the Cabinet. On the contrary, the Prime Minister has strongly confirmed it by implication in the House of Commons. Why is it 'impossible' that the desire of the King, who does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such...