Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime exceptions: farm laborers, domestic servants...
...canon which pre scribes balanced objectivity in news presentation, with opinion confined to editorial columns. A sample "news'' lead on its front page last week: "Gov. Alf M. Landon tonight brought his great crusade for the preservation of the American form of government into Los Angeles. ..." A prime Tribune headline, over a piece exposing vice in Superior and Hurley, Wis. last fortnight...
This state of affairs was exactly what able British airmen had expected would come about when the gentlemen of the Air Ministry recently maneuvered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into dismissing the only one of its civil servants with a practical grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering...
...nation as a whole was cheered to have its faith in the British Navy renewed by Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, who, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, has been increasingly often mentioned as one of two or three statesmen with a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. Sir Samuel would certainly know, reasons the average Englishman, whether there is any validity in the rumors that Air Power has now outmoded Sea Power. This onetime Air Minister was Foreign Secretary when Benito Mussolini faced down British ships in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935), knows diplomacy...
...sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only real friends. Most of these people seem "American" to the circles in which Queen Mary and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin respectively move - and to these worthies "American" is a revolting adjective. The worst feature of an appalling situation in their eyes last week was not that Mrs. Simpson has one divorce and is about to have another but that Mrs. Simpson was in fact born...