Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...even threatened to recognize Rebel Spain as the only legal Spanish Government, which would mean withdrawing recognition simultaneously from Loyalist Spain. This would give Generalissimo Franco the legal international right of starving out the Loyalists even if he could not conquer them. Illegally he is already doing just that. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government jumped the gun by according immediate recognition to the Generalissimo...
Appeasement, obviously, was in order. Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Great Appeaser, deciding it might be a good idea to have a heart-to-heart chat with the real article, imported two burly miners named Scaife and Spouge from Yorkshire. As soon as they reached London, Scaife and Spouge made a beeline for Madame Tussaud's waxworks to get used to rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
TIME'S Index competes with none of these standard indexes but seeks rather to appraise the factors underlying the business activity they record. This is done by analyzing the weekly Federal Reserve Board banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation's intrinsic soundness are such financial factors as its working capital position, its sales to inventory ratio, the quality of its so-called assets. The soundness of U. S. business as a whole is similarly reflected in the nation's banking figures...