Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain remained snug and cozy at No. 10 Downing Street last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which...
...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
Sweeping the country in epidemic proportions, a new old-age pension fever has suddenly loomed as a prime political issue. Since it has already decided several crucial elections, and since it undoubtedly will decide several more, there is small wonder that demagogues have seized upon it as the most likely fertilizer for a bumper crop of votes. Both camps are guilty of rosy promises, but most striking is their use by New Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate...
BONG! went the New York Stock Exchange 10 o'clock opening bell one day last week. What looked like the worst break of the year promptly began. By radio and ticker came the gloomy words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before the House of Commons. To the market they brought a tide of liquidation. Prices cracked as much as three points, blocks as big as 6,000 shares were dumped. At 10:28, came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed...
Died. Marshal Alexander Averescu, 77, soldier-statesman, Rumania's World War generalissimo, three times (1918, 1920, 1926) its Prime Minister; in Bucharest...