Word: primed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might be Canada's Prime Minister if he were British, campaigned against him with epigrams: "It is the Union Nazionale, not the Union Nationale I" Finally the powerful Church failed to support him. The Premier began to mumble about good roads, public works, farm credits...
...fate of City of Flint caused an angry stir in the U. S. State Department (see p. 16). From a naval viewpoint it was much bigger news that the 10,000-ton Deutschland-perhaps also her sisters Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee-was at large as a raider. Prime Minister Chamberlain took official cognizance of Deutschland in his weekly report to the House of Commons. She was known to have operated off Newfoundland between Oct. 5 and Oct. 15, halting two Norwegian vessels and sinking one of them, in addition to Stonegate. Admiral Scheer was believed operating...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...
...series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
Members of the Prime Minister's house hold "revealed" to the United Press that when Neville Chamberlain is tuckered out after a hard day at the office, he relaxes by crooning Negro spirituals in a Birmingham baritone...