Word: runcimanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force meets immovable body there can be only one result, a cosmic explosion. Last week as just such an explosion seemed about to take place in European affairs-as German demands rushed headlong against Czechoslovak determination-stolid Britain suddenly slipped into the swiftly narrowing gap a dignified cushion: Viscount Runciman...
...Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1937 was the president of the British League of Nations Union (1 Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 2 the Earl of Bewdley, 3 Sir Thomas Inskip, 4 Walter Runciman, 5 Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw...
Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...
...Myron C. Taylor. Without attempting to evaluate them the magazine declared that the only two rumors that could not be summarily dismissed were that the settlement had been hastened by 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt or 2) Walter Runciman of Britain's Board of Trade, who was in the U. S. at the time and might have hinted that rearmament orders would be withheld until U. S. steelmasters could assure continuous delivery...
...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...