Word: primed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Cabinet met in special session at the White House to listen to Prime Minister Chamberlain's moving broadcast to the Empire the third day after his discouraged return from Godesberg. It came to them over a small, portable radio placed on the table between President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull...
This plea the President further backed up by cabling a personal suggestion to Benito Mussolini that he say a restraining word to Herr Hitler. Mussolini already urged to this by Prime Minister Chamberlain (see p.15), had already talked to Herr Hitler by telephone when Ambassador Phillips in Rome arrived with Mr. Roosevelt's message. Announcement of Hitler's decision to hold the four-power meeting at Munich followed so soon after these two Roosevelt messages that the appearance of cause-&-effect was inevitable...
...Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there...
Nearly the whole world last week undertook to pass judgment in one form or another on Britain's Prime Minister. That Neville Chamberlain will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was taken for granted by the Norwegian press. The influential Aftenposten went on to urge that, without waiting for the next scheduled date for the Nobel award-December 10, anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel-the committee should "immediately" give Mr. Chamberlain the prize (about $40.000). Norwegian joy at the peace was such that all Oslo school children were given a holiday...
...British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher Sir Charles Hyde "to commemorate the services for peace of the Prime Minister...