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Word: prime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Keep Off The Grass | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Idle Hour | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...battered white yachting cap seeking a U. S. publisher for his book. Back in the job-hunting mill he had fled four years before, he had recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Idle Hour | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Born. To Mrs. Stephen Lloyd, daughter of England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain; a daughter, the Prime Minister's second grandchild (Mrs. Lloyd has a 2-year-old son); in Birmingham, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Elected. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera; to the Presidency of the League of Nations Assembly; in Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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