Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Canadian insurance salesman, perches with his broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry...
...Ward. Brother James, a saloonkeeper, took the First Ward for his domain. Brother Thomas was the ambitious one. Starting out under Jim, who died in 1911, he thrust up and out until he was undisputed boss not only of Kansas City but of all Missouri, and as such a prime power in the national Democracy...
...greatest story since the Resurrection" is the now living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina...
...York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week a palpitating and perspiring fat man dashing between No. 10 Downing St. and Buckingham Palace in an atmosphere so agitated that he even forgot...
Social Security was one of N.R.D.G.A.'s prime legislative purposes long before that subject took form on the Congressional calendar. Social Security is, in effect, insurance on buying power. Retailers are close to the public, so self-interest dictates that retailing policy follow elections...